A bit of a theme has been building up really probably for about a month now ever since Salt Lake City, by my reckoning, that the team has put forth its best effort more often than not that the team's been not just competitive

but winning games against opponents that are a lot higher than them in the standings and that it

matters it really matters good morning to you good wednesday morning i'm dan kovitch of dk

pittsburgh sports this is daily shot of penguins it comes your way right Good morning to you. Good Wednesday morning. I'm Dan Kovachovich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

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I hope you'll check those out as well. Penguins 3, Golden Knights 2 in overtime last night at PPG Paints Arena.

And this game, a lot like the one in Las Vegas last week, had the Penguins in command for 40 or 40 plus minutes.

Had the Golden Knights put on a big push at the end.

In this case, it resulted in the tying goal with six seconds left.

But from there, an elegant zone entry from Yvgeny Malkin,

a resultant backhand pass to Eric Carlson and just a ticketed wrister that Carlson would blow past Ilya Sampsonov ended this one the way it should have ended.

And in all honesty, the way the game in Las Vegas would have ended or could have ended.

But I'm not here to shoulda or would or coulda, even though I just used all three of those. I'm not even here to lay it on thicker than ever for Sidney Crosby,

who had two more goals after scoring twice in St. Paul. I'm here to talk about the thing that

none of us could have imagined we'd be talking about.

That's Tristan Jari.

He stopped 35 of 37 shots.

He was no less sharp in this game than he was against the wild, just a little busier.

He was dynamic down low, solid up high,

beaten only by real live NHL goals. And I'm going to say the same thing after this that I told

you from St. Paul, he won this game. When it was Jari's turn afterward in the locker room to pass out the victory helmet to someone else, he hands it to Carlson.

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