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DK's Daily Shot of Penguins: Who/what is Brock McGinn?

DK Pittsburgh Sports: Daily podcasts on Steelers, Penguins, Pirates!

DK Pittsburgh Sports

Sports, Football, Nhl, Dejan Kovacevic, Pittsburgh Pirates, Baseball, Pirates, Matt Williamson, Mlb, Dk Pittsburgh Sports, Pittsburgh Steelers, Steelers, Penguins, Pittsburgh Penguin, Pittsburgh, Nfl, Hockey

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The Pittsburgh Penguins lost Brandon Tanev to the Seattle Kraken in the NHL Expansion Draft and when they did so they lost an integral part of the 2020-21 Penguins. Since then, it's been Brock McGinn who's picked up the slack on the third line in place of Tanev. Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's Daily Shots of Steelers, Penguins and Pirates -- three separate podcasts -- every weekday morning on the DK Pittsburgh Sports podcasting network, available on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/dkpghsports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football.

0:07.0

What a fantastic night of football.

0:10.0

Including 10 Premier League games.

0:13.0

It doesn't get much better than that.

0:17.0

And Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match.

0:22.3

The biggest live games from the biggest leagues all wrapped up.

0:28.0

It's on Prime.

0:34.7

Around the time, Brock McGinn was acquired over the summer, the consensus was that he was going to be the pseudo replacement for Brandon Tanev.

0:51.4

I haven't seen that.

0:54.0

And at the same time, I kind of liked what I've seen. Good morning to you. Good Thursday morning. I'm Dan Kovachovich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is daily shot of penguins. It comes your way bright and early every weekday. If you're into football and or baseball, I also offer up daily shots of Steelers and Pirates right where you've found this.

1:14.0

The Penguin's next game is Saturday night against the Maple Leafs.

1:20.8

And with that comes all the requisite challenges of facing all of Toronto's largely overhyped, but still very good group of forwards.

1:35.0

Austin Matthews isn't, well, yeah, he does get overhyped because they build him up as if he's Connor McDavid and he isn't.

1:41.5

But he's still a tremendous player.

1:46.0

Mitch Marner, William Nealander, John Tavares, they have real-life players up front,

1:51.4

and they play a very, very, very fast style.

1:56.3

Maybe other than Edmonton, at least Edmonton's top line, the fastest style in the league.

2:04.5

So what you need to do when opposing them, first and foremost, is to keep up.

2:12.5

And what I've loved about McGinn's game to date as part of the Teddy Bluger line, now the

2:22.3

Bluger and Zach Aston-Reese line is that he's fit right in with the Mike Sullivan system. He's fit right in with the pace. He's fit right in with the

2:40.1

mindset of getting the puck, keeping the puck, doing something smart with the puck.

2:49.4

I know that most of the praise that McGinn is going to get through these four games is for

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