In a few hours, I'll be heading over to New York to cover your favorite franchises season opener at Madison Square Garden.

And I'm going to do so in full support of the broader plan. But with some questions, good morning to you. Good Monday morning. I'm going to do so in full support of the broader plan.

But with some questions, good morning to you.

Good Monday morning.

I'm Dan Kovachwitch of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

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Penguins versus Rangers is an 8.15 p.m. face off tomorrow night at the garden.

It'll be, I'm sure, all about the Mike Sullivan Fair and that sort of thing to some people, I guess.

I'm not really the narrative-driven type.

I'm going to cover a hockey game.

This part of what I think is a pivotal hockey season in Pittsburgh.

And I'd love to see the right decisions made even before it gets started, but all throughout. Now, I'm obviously not anybody's arbiter for what's a right decision and what's a wrong decision, but I'm comfortable

expressing my own viewpoint after having been around this club for, oh, you know, 30 years or so.

And I got to tell you, I mostly like what's been done.

I mostly like what emerged from training camp.

And I mostly applaud the roster decisions that were made as a result.

I'll give you examples of the positives first.

I really loved, as you might imagine, given how I've spoken of them, that both Ben

Kindle and Harrison Brunich are going to get at least some time and something of a chance

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