One word that gets used a ton in hockey probably overused is desperation.

But it does have its place in the sport and you can feel it.

And it's happening morning to you good

Thursday morning I'm Dan Kovachievich of DK Pittsburgh Sports this is daily

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football and or baseball I also offer daily shots of Steelers and Pirates in the same place that you found this.

Penguins versus Islanders tonight.

Home opener at PPG Paints Arena.

That's a 708 p.m. faceoff and it's got a tough act to follow, given what I just covered

in Manhattan.

Because if we get past some of the individual accolades that were deserved from that

general performance, Yvgeny Malcon, Best Player on E. Ice, Harrison Brunich, Ben Kindle,

showing well as teenagers.

Justin Brzoe popping a couple of goals.

The list is a lot longer than that.

Heck, Artur Shilovs with a 25 save shutout.

But the truth is, the star of their game,

as boring and cliched as this might come across was the way they got it done together and the further truth is and I want to speak for you here but just

maybe to poke inside your brain a little bit I I'm going to guess that what got your motor going

probably wasn't a whole lot different than what I know for a fact got their collective motor going.

And that's that they went into that third period with the one goal lead.

They saw the victory, the two points, as being theirs and something that would

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