This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sports Net Radio Network.

Big win last night for the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Big hit, absorbed by Nola Cherry, hearing for Brendan Dylan.

Big debut for Yesie Pulli RV and another shutout for Tristajari. The Penguins beat the Winnipeg Jets fourth loss in a row for Rick Bonus's team.

Senior writer at the athletic is a good friend Rob Rossi who is here to talk about all things pens in a very confusing at times

Metropolitan Division. Rob how are you today? I'm better than the Metropolitan

Division I can promise you that. It is weird. I'm so glad you mentioned this

because I look at the central I think we all just know okay so it's a matter of

like who's gonna finish finish for a second third between

Winnipeg, Colorado, Dallas. We all know what's happening in the

Pacific and we had a first round preview last night. I think we look at the

Atlantic and say okay that's coming into some sharper focus. Maybe there's

some wild card sharpening of the pencil here but the Metropolitan good

luck figuring this one now what's your sense of it before we drill down to the pens

oh boy I I mean I don't know I thought that the

Rangers strong play over the first three months of the season was maybe more of a I think the Rangers are a

good team but I didn't think they were as good as they were playing and I think

that's kind of proven back you know Carolina I think they're built for the regular season, but I still wonder like you know

The way they play I think makes it tough for them to to be able to sort of carry that through for

post season. I know that's not necessarily the question,

but I don't know. I mean, I keep saying, well,

Philly and Washington, you know, at one point I went from,

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