one way or another this

NHL season that's coming close

to a really riveting

I think of conclusion

is going to be defined by one player

certainly by all the rest of us. Good morning

to you. Good. Monday morning. I'm Dan Kovachiev of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily

Shot of Penguins. It comes your way bright and early every weekday. If you're into football and

or baseball, I also offer daily shots of Steelers and Pirates in the same place that

you found this. Game six of the Stanley Cup final will be tomorrow night in Sunrise, Florida,

Brad Marchand and the Panthers, which still sounds funny, doesn't it? Being one win away

from getting a visit from Mr. White Gloves.

And I'm going to go out on a figurative limb here and guess that, oh, only about 97% of all the dialogue in advance of this game.

And a hundred percent of the dialogue once the final

is over either way is going to be about Connor macdavid this couldn't surprise anybody in

pittsburgh when the penguins needed five full years just to make the playoffs with the greatest player who ever lived, everything

was on Mario Lemieux. Once they got into the playoffs and started rolling deeper, but you want

to know something? As those games got bigger, so did 66. You know what else started to happen?

He started to take singular responsibility for the scoring component.

His first year in the playoffs, 12 goals and 7 assists.

Not very Mario-like, right?

The next year, the first year that the Penguins won a cup,

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