have some fun today we're going to get this team your team into next springs

stanley cup playoffs we're going to do it in a way that still somehow furthers the cause of the franchise's future. Good morning to you. Good.

Tuesday morning, I'm Dan Kovachievich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is daily shot of penguins. It comes

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Today at noon, Kyle Dubus is going to meet with us reporter types.

That'll be up in Cranberry.

You'll be able to track that as it happens on the D.K. Pittsburgh Sports app,

which I know you've already downloaded, so I don't have to.

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We'll be right there for you. But before Dubus sets everybody's compass a certain way, before I can be influenced in any way by his words and his projections,

which actually matter, I want to share with you what I've got.

And I'm going to start the only place that you can start this specific conversation.

And that's with Yvgen-Malkin status.

My belief is that Gino's going to be retained.

My belief is actually that Gino has to be retained, because no GM would want something that ugly

on his resume.

Twice is ugly considering the reassurance that he gave Gino late in the regular season.

When he asked Gino, do you want to come back next year? Gino says yes. Dubus responds, we'll talk to this summer. Don't worry about it. Okay, so, Gino's back. I'm going to leave the first line alone. I have a bunch of reasons for that, but the biggest one is that there's nobody ready to bump them, any of them.

Ricard Raquel, Brian Rust, certainly not Sidney Crosby.

So Gino likes to play with Jaguar Chinikov.

You want to get the most out of Chinikov.

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