Hi, I'm Taylor Haas coming to you from the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey,

where the Penguins just beat the Devils 5 to 2 and clinched a playoff spot.

I don't know if many people thought that this was a realistic possibility early in the year.

I think certainly in that room they did.

Dan Muz, I mean, he just said, you know, post-team, they started thinking about that in training camp.

And it's finally reality.

We're going to be here, I don't know, until we run out of questions talking about this.

Maybe we'll do another hour one like we did after the win over Florida. But, I mean, I think

there's a lot of things you talk about here. The core, I mean, just for them, there was, I think,

a time where

people seriously questioned whether Crosby, Malkin, Latang, at least together as like

the three of them would get a chance to play in the playoffs again. They're going to get that.

You have a lot of young guys who have not had that opportunity at all. They're going to have

that opportunity. But I want to, we have to go back to Sid. I'm going to play video, Sid, talk, post game about what it means to be back in the playoffs. And I mean, I asked him, like, first round opponent, like, how, at what point do you start thinking about that? So here he is on that. Yeah, it's exciting.

That's why you play.

That's the best time of year.

So to know that we're going to be there, just set out to do that.

And obviously, even more, yeah, it's nice to get rewarded.

Everybody has had a part in this.

Obviously, it's a team game, but especially with this group, group you know with the injuries and all the different guys in and out you know everybody's contributed

us getting there at what point do you start looking at the standings and the out of town scores

and start thinking about your first round opponent yeah i mean i think you just you want to focus on

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