Hey, everybody wants to talk about Chris Letang.

We're going to talk about LaTang today, and I'm going to make every effort to keep it as real as possible.

Good.

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The Penguins will have their first practice in forever today up in Cranberry.

Dan Mews, of course, electing to have no practices on that five-game, eight-day trip that I just covered across three time zones. It worked to the

extent that the team got six out of a possible 10 points against some very good opponents,

but I'm also sure they're eager to have some semblance of normalcy back in their lives,

and practices are normalcy.

Next game is tomorrow. Winnipeg coming to town.

And after that on Sunday, yet another meeting with those Carolina diving brindamores.

But enough of that, no matter what it is that I talk about on this program, no matter what it is that I bring up on our live video that we do every afternoon, no matter what it is that I write, everything comes back with,

but latang dot, dot, dot, dot.

I have a couple of things to say about this, and I'm probably going to surprise you with

at least one or two.

The first, and I would hope this is obvious, he's not been good.

He wasn't particularly good before the Olympic break, although he at least had some promising

stretches there for a bit, and he hasn't been good at all after the break.

There's a lot of different ways to measure that, but the one that's

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