Winning for the sake of winning or for pride or for the paying customers or something like that, that's nice.

And I'm going to be the last one to knock it.

I've been preaching it quite a bit of late, in fact.

But there's a much bigger benefit to be had.

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Penguins 5, Blues 3, and if you're still counting, that's three in a row.

Beat the wild, beat the Golden Knights, and now beat St. Louis.

And three pretty good teams at that.

Without overstating, it's not like they're mopping up on the sharks and the blackhawks, the sabres, whatever.

They haven't been perfect.

They certainly weren't in the game last night. First period, blues were just all over them. Throughout the game, the blues power play had way too easy a time.

And the offense would go through these awkward stretches of not really achieving much of anything and then just getting a shot past Jordan Bennington,

who was the bad version of Bennington and got pulled.

So this wasn't like it was some masterpiece or it was some tribute to how hard we're going or anything like that.

It was mostly about Tristan Jari again being

very good. It was about being opportunistic and it was about closing it out at the end when it was just a

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