On the surface, it wouldn't seem like it's much.

Two additional regular season games will be on the schedule this coming season.

There will also be two fewer preseason games, and yet there's a lot more to it. Good morning to you.

Good. Thursday morning, I'm Dayon Kovach of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily Shot of Penguins. It comes

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The NHL's full schedule will be released today at 1 p.m. Eastern.

Pieces, and I mean really small pieces of that schedule were put out yesterday.

This has become a thing now with the league where the 32 openers.

Everybody's opener gets announced.

The Penguin's home opener will be October 3rd against the Canadians.

And their real opener, the season opener, will be September 30.

You heard me right.

And where else would that be?

But in Philly.

Because they're putting that one on TNT and streaming it on HBO Max,

and they want it to be a really big deal.

Now, one other piece of the schedule became known that October 7 will see the Penguins

go to Washington for the capitals home opener.

So right there you have three out of 84 games.

And yes, again, it'll be 84.

Now, there's a really good chance once this whole thing is out this afternoon that you'll

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