Hey guys, welcome to a live shot of penguins from Raleigh, North Carolina.

I'm Dan Kovachvich.

She's Taylor Haas.

We're from D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

And look, you can take this however you want.

The penguins lost this game.

If you want to cope, you go right ahead.

The final score was five to four via shootout. But Taylor, there was, there really wasn't much of a

loss feel in that locker room, was there? No, I mean, they were happy with the way they came

back. I mean, they looked like they were out of this. It was four or two, and they forced to come back. Stuart Skinner was great. He was the big part of why they got to overtime in the first place. They just can't close it out in the shootout, but that's nothing new. The shootout is the shootout. I've almost reached the point, and point and it sounds you know it's funny to an extent

doesn't it sound like they're feeling the same way in there like it's just like they're not

accepting that they stink in the shootout it's just they really feel like there's just some

intangible thing that's working against the minute well because i i i also think it's like, what more can you do? Like, I know every time they lose fans, they're like, when are they going to start practicing the shootout? Like Dan Balsman used to practice the shootout all the time. They practice the shootout all the time. And they do like the little ones, like the little quick ones, you know, segues between drills with like kind of the main guys,

which, you know, is rotating who those main guys are. But they do the big team-wide ones during practice. They do it a lot at the end of practice. It's not, it's not changing anything.

They did switch it up today. Ben Kindle goes first and he scores, which is nice.

But then, I mean, he's the only one that scores. He can't be the only one that scores.

It's the shooters are struggling. The goalies are struggling.

Guys, I just ran into a sad-faced Igor Chinikov in the hallway here.

This was a few minutes ago right out here.

And I kind of, I looked at him.

I kind of tilted my head and I go, just miss it. He goes, I lost it. I lost it. And he had him beat so bad. It was, it was a, to put it into the Russian parlance, because I said to him, I said,

it was like Datsuk, the way he fooled him.

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