Hey guys, welcome to double shot of penguins.

I'm Dan Kovachovich.

East Chris Halleck and way up there in Elmont, New York, Taylor Haas, our beat

reporter is preparing to cover penguins versus

islanders that's a 738 p.m. base off at ubs arena taylor's favorite place in the league yeah i mean

we we talked about it yesterday i i think this is the one arena in the league that, like, you can't just walk to from like a hotel nearby. It's, they put it kind of in the middle of nowhere. It's that. And then Belmont Park, which I think it's a pile of rubble or right now, or at least it was last time we were here. But, yeah, it's... The horses can walk there.

Beautiful building.

They put it in a really dumb place, I think.

It's a really big game being played in a really big, dumb place.

Really big, dumb place.

Yeah.

But it's a big game.

And it feels, I don't know, a little bit cheapened today because the Islanders got their rear ends kicked in Washington last night.

And the Penguins really got their rear ends kicked here.

Penguins just played like crap.

Okay.

I'm not sure that's all that different.

I thought the senators were very good. I so too but there was no urgency it seemed from the penguins for throughout the majority of the game they couldn't do a lot of the little things correctly they just they like stick handling passing line changes like oh line changes so bad yeah i mean like everything was bad everything that's like your your basics of hockey or even hockey operations

in the middle of a game it was just it was bad it was a bad game it's one they got to flush and

they got to flush it quickly yeah they got to flush it within the next couple of hours here Taylor you have a

pretty good sense for who the goaltenders are going to be tonight yeah I mean you figure it's

going to be Skinner and then because um the islanders played ridditch last night you're probably

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