Locked On Penguins - Daily Podcast On The Pittsburgh Penguins - Penguins DOMINATE Rangers in season opener!

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

The Penguins pulled off a dominant 3-0 win over the New York Rangers in the 2025-26 season opener! Patrick and Hunter begin the show by breaking down the Penguins' dominant performance in New York City. They talk about how Dan Muse's system stymied the Rangers in all three zones, played solid team defense, and were able to keep the Rangers from getting any offense going all night long. (0:00) Then, defenseman Harrison Brunicke and forward Ben Kindel made their NHL debuts in the season opener and did a lot of good to continue making their case to stay in the big leagues beyond a nine-game tryout. They dive into how Brunicke bounced back from a tough first shift and how Kindel didn't look out of place at the NHL level. (12:53) Finally, it's Wednesday once again, so it's time for Warrior Helmet Wednesday, which means Patrick and Hunter give out their MVPs of the week! Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!IndeedNow, you can speed up your hiring process with a $75 Sponsored Job Credit. Just go to https://indeed.com/lockedonright now and support our show by saying you heard about Indeed on this podcast. Terms and conditions apply.Monarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONNHL at monarchmoney.com/lockedonnhl for 50% off your first year.FanDuelDownload the FanDuel app now by visiting FanDuel.com and win $300 in bonus bets if your first $5 bet wins.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Pittsburgh Penguins were victorious in their season opener and Hunter. There is just but one song that comes to mind. Start spreading the news. The Rangers are losers today. We're going to recap the game right after this. You're Locked-on Penguins. Your daily podcast on the Pittsburgh Penguins. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network.

Your team every day. Welcome in to another edition of the Locked-on Penguins podcast. I'm one of your hosts, Patrick Damp. You can follow me across all social media platforms at Synonym 4Wet. Joined as always by the one and only Hunter Hodes. You can follow him on Twitter at Hunter Hodes. You can give our show's Twitter account a follow at L-O-U-U-Score Penguins. You can also find us on Instagram at Locked-on underscore Penguins.

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episode i know it you know it our listeners know it you know we want to talk about the young guys we want to talk about kendall we want to talk about harrison brunick let's park that to the second segment because there is a lot to say about them. But we got to talk about what was maybe as close to a flawless victory that we have seen from the Pittsburgh Penguins in quite some time. Now, I'll get the caveat out of the way. This doesn't mean you need to start putting deposits down for playoff tickets. This doesn't mean that suddenly they're going to be a competitive playoff team.

But it was a very good start for a roster with some young players. new faces and a brand new coaching staff. And let's start with this. They played maybe the best team defense I have seen them play in years. Yes, Archer Shilov's got a shutout in his penguins debut against former Penguins coach Mike Sullivan. But he may have faced 25 shots, but his work rate was not very high. I love natural satrick, but there is no way the Rangers had 13 high danger chances at 5 on 5 in that game. I felt like they only had 2 to 3 at best.

The penguins did such a good job of limiting the Rangers to the outside. Their forecheck was giving the Rangers fits throughout. I mean, New York couldn't even break the puck out of their own zone for most of that game, Pat. And when they were able to get out of their own zone, it was a lot of one-and-duns. The zone exits for the penguins were a lot more simple, a lot more crisp, compared to what we've seen over the last few years. And all of that was just really frustrating the Rangers. They could not get their forecheck going to save their lives.

And I felt like this performance, it was a very professional performance from the Penguins. There was nothing flashy. But again, they clogged up the passing lanes. They prevented the Rangers from breaking out. Ben Kindle's hockey IQ, we'll get into that a little bit later, stood out once again. Eric Carlson's positioning was sensational. That's one of the best games I've seen Carlson play as a member of the Penguins, Archer Sheelovs, gets a shutout.

Even though I was low-key surprised to see him start, I thought they were going to give this to Jari, even though his preseason was so-so, just because he's been here for a while. He's a vet, but Dan Mews was like, no, I'm going to reward Sheelves for having a better camp in preseason. And I think he deserves the next start on Thursday, if we're being honest. Like, you got to keep putting more pressure on Jari to say, hey, if She-Lov is going to keep playing like this, you're going to have to really step it up. So I would give Sheelov another start, but you said it about the defending too.

That's the best I've seen the Penguins defend, especially in the third period in a few years. The way that they were flat out taking it to the Rangers in that third period. I mean, the Rangers could hardly get anything going, even when trailing. It felt like that game was never in jeopardy, despite the Penguins only having a one goal lead. They were getting some chances in that period. They weren't giving up much to Sheelovs. They made his job pretty easy. night, if we're being even more honest.

So I just loved that start from the Penguins. Dan Mews had a great game plan, executed it to perfection. And it's a nice start. It's only one game, but I was really happy with that type of performance. It was such a breath of fresh air pat compared to what we've seen in the last few years. And again, I'm no Mike Sullivan hater, but man, it was fun seeing him storm off the bench like that, like he was pretty pissed off. I got to lie.

I chuckled to myself a little bit. And it was, again, it was nice seeing a new staff breathe some new blood into this team. I think it's really needed it. And you saw that last. The thing I noticed about Mews's system to start this season, I noticed it a little bit in preseason, but I try not to dive too deep into film study and X's and O's in the preseason because you have a lot of players trying to make the roster. They're going to, you're going to have some players who try to do too much. you're going to have some players who break from systems,

some players who aren't going to make the team that can't quite execute the system correctly. So I try not to put too much weight into it in the preseason. But one thing I noticed in the preseason, and it was extremely evident last night, this system that Dan Muses employing, especially in both the offensive and defensive zones, is very heavy on puck support. Yeah. Go back and watch last night's game.

there were at any and all times two to three penguins in the vicinity of the puck. There was no backing off. There was no trying to get yourself to a more advantageous position. The system was based on we are going to pressure you at the point of attack. And whether we get it or not is irrelevant because there's going to be at least one, maybe two penguins in the area as well. So whatever outlet you try to make, you're going to be under pressure. again. And a lot of people will hear that and think, oh, that's what Mike Sullivan did and not

totally the same thing, because it wasn't dependent on high speed or heavy pressure. It was making sure that all the points of attack were cut off when the other team has possession of the puck. Speaking of that, we do have to talk about at least real quickly the goal score. Justin Brzoe gets a phenomenal goal, ends up being the game winner in the second, or late in the first period, excuse me. Evgeny Malkin pushes the puck through Vincent Trochec's legs off a face off, Brzo all by himself in front, great slick little move, puts it past Chesterkin. That eventually becomes the game winner.

Brazo adds an empty netter, so does Blake Lazot. But at the end of the day, when I look at this game from last night, this was a full team effort top to bottom. I really can't name a player who didn't at least have an average game for the Penguins. I could probably name a couple. I thought Coyvinen could be a little bit better. And I think he will be. I don't think Caleb Jones played really well for most of this game.

Still curious what the Eval is on that. But I felt like to me, even on the bottom pairing role with Brunich, I think he could have been a little bit better. But again, that's me being a little nitpicky. I think everyone else had at least an average performance. And that does include Harrison Brunick Pat. We'll get to that in just a second as well. But yeah, the two big pillars of Musa system, it's puck support and puck pressure.

You saw both on display all night on Tuesday. The Forecheck again consistently gave the Rangers problems whenever they attempted to transition from defense to offense. And on the other side, the Penguins always had, at least from my eye test, more than one forward helping out on their own breakouts. and again just kept everything really simple coming out of their own zone. And they were hounds on the puck all night, very tough to play against.

That is what I think. It's funny. First game, that's what damn music system looks like when everything is working. I think that's the blueprint for the Penguins for the rest of the year in terms of especially playing against better opponents because there's going to be a lot of better teams that they play against. Let's be real here. So that I think has to be the.

blueprint and you know shout out to archer she loves once again he was great made the saves he needed to make his glove side was a little bit shaky to start out but he still was able to make the saves he needed to make throughout that game and i would give him another start on thursday as for justin brisoe pat is anyone still overreacting to him being on the second line right now i saw a lot of that earlier this week when the lines were dropping during practice i think it's okay for a little bit guys brian rus returned to practice today he was he's been cleared for contact I expect him back probably around the California trip, maybe a little bit before. I would think that Brazil is probably going to move down the lineup a little bit to the bottom six once that move is official.

But he gets two goals last night. I thought he played well. I thought of Gennie Malkin also was spectacular. Had his legs last night. He was setting up chances left and right. That nifty little feet to Brazil. Off the face off was great. Alexei Lafranier was totally fooled there.

If you go back and watch that a couple of times, he tried to. cheat a little bit, start going up ice, but didn't realize that Brazil was cutting to the net, and then he roost it past Shirk. And so just a really nice play all around there. And I thought Anthony Mantel also had a really good game. I know people were going to harp on him for that bad past at Kindle. I get it. Probably could have been a bit better, excuse me, but I thought he had some really good chances, especially, you know, later on in the game when Chris LaTang, when I also thought played well, more on him later, he chipped the puck right at the blue line, a small little play on a pinch, right to Anthony Mantha, who had a mini breakaway.

Better save from Shisterkin, but I really like that play from both of those players there. But really nice first win. See if they'll continue it against the Islanders. It's a good start for sure. We have to be happy with it. But again, don't start putting those deposits down on playoff tickets yet. It's one game. We've got 81 more to go.

But I don't think you could have drawn up a better start. for the penguins in the Dan Mews era. But there was one thing that was pretty good for the start. Benjamin Kindle and Harrison Brunich, we will focus an entire segment on the teenagers who made their NHL debut at MSG on Tuesday night. We will do that when we get back right after this. Before we do that, though, we've got to tell you about today's first sponsor, and that is indeed.

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His first shift wasn't great, takes a penalty. even if I thought it was a bit of a dive, but both penalties last night were dives. I would agree with you in that regard. But the thing I did say about his penalty, though, is most NHL officials are going to call that. And that will come with experience for Harrison Brunick, because you know when the guy goes down like that, it is going to end up being on the defenseman or the skater who makes him go down, even if it's kind of tic-y-tack. He will learn that the longer he plays.

But I think he put that behind him and he played really well for the majority of the game. He, the biggest thing to me is this. That rough first shift, he gets put out there with the big three along with Ben Kindle. Really nice touch by Dan Mews putting the guys making their NHL debuts to start the game with the guys who are starting their 20th season. season together. Really nice little nod to his team. But that could have been a spiral moment for Harrison Brunick. You take a penalty on your first shift. It's the opening game. It's your first game in the Biggs. But he stayed cool, stayed calm. The Penguins killed the penalty. And I thought for

the rest of the game, he played pretty darn well. I think the first period he had that first game jitters. And I actually thought during that first shift, you know, the penguins had the Rangers hemmed in their own zone for a good while there. Cindy Crosby was doing. Sydney Crosby things generating scoring chances. I thought Let's hang was looking well. Malkin. Kendall was playing well. Even Brunich was too. Until he takes the penalty, you could tell he was nervous. And then later on in that period, just making a couple plays in his own zone where I was like, yeah, you definitely have the first game jitters. You look nervous out there. Definitely wasn't a good period, Pat, but I will give him credit. He bounced back in the second and third periods. And I think

overall had a average performance. I think it was fine when you sum it all up. And I do think it's going to be better going for it. You got that first game out of the way. Now you can start to settle in a little bit, especially over these next eight games, where you try to convince the coaching staff to keep you up for a full season. So I was fine with his overall performance. Ben Kindle, I mean, he was outstanding all game long. There was one play Pat where it looked like he had a third eye in the back of his head. That passed to Thomasino was like a no look pass and Thomasino almost scores. I'm like, how did you know he was there?

But then you think about it for a millisecond. It's like, oh yeah, again, his hockey IQ stood out once again. There was another play later in the game where he sold out to block a shot from the point. And it's like it's the little things like, that that are going to go a long way, I think, for his development. He was getting scoring chances throughout. I know there was the one play, especially where Anthony Mantha tried to set him up, and it just wasn't a good pass, and Kendall just whiffed on the puck, but I'm not going to

blame Kendall on that. Manta just has to make a better pass there. And he knew, he knew it. Like, he kind of slammed his stick down. He knew he needed to deliver a better pass there to Kendall. But I thought he was tremendous all game long. His skating was great. his hockey IQ stood out once again.

His defensive work in his own zone was once again really good. That was a really nice first start if he wants to convince this coaching staff and management to potentially burn a year of his ELC. It's one game, Pat. We got potentially eight more before a decision comes. That's a real nice start. And I thought he did a good job centering Tommy Novak and Philip Tomasino. Just a great game.

It was like you said, it's one game. and it obviously you don't want to overreact to it, but it was a tremendous step in the correct direction for him to make a case to stay in the NHL. Because not only does he do everything you said, plays just over 15 minutes. He goes four for five in the faceoff circle. And if you look at the centers that New York has,

say whatever you will about their overall abilities. New York's a pretty good face off team. Kendall goes in and goes, four for five. Granted, four for five is not that many when you break down how many faceoffs there are in a game, but he had five opportunities. He won four of them. That's pretty good for an 18 year old, especially going up against some pretty darn good centers. And then you dig into the analytics of it. He has 53% of the shot attempts went on the ice at five on five when his lines on the ice and 75% of the high danger percentage when he's on the ice. The kid was driving offense.

every time pretty much he stepped over the boards. And again, one game against an opponent that I think we're starting to learn might not be as good as they think they are, which is kind of been why I've struggled to evaluate the Rangers, because in theory, it should be at least a playoff team, if not an above average team. But then at the same time, you go out and watch the way they played last night. and what we're in i'll go on a quick tangent here and we'll get back to kindle they didn't look inspired at all that just looked like a team that really didn't have a lot of passion or fire for the game you know what it reminded me of the 24 25 pittsburgh penguins yeah a little bit like j t miller looked awful he looks hurt by the way but he was terrible

last night panarin i don't really think was that good zabenejad wasn't really good lafranier again got dusted on that first brazo goal i just didn't see that level of compete that fire from the rangers they were just kind of going through the motions and i don't understand how some people have that team as a lock for the playoffs i think they're going to have to really earn their spot if they get in and i said that during the preview on tuesday when you were on i r with your little stomach bug i felt like this was a game that could be had for the penguins like i look at the bottom six of the rangers it's not good i look at the bottom two pairings it's not good and what do you know the had their way with this team.

They were the faster team, which is saying something, because I still don't think they're that fast, especially when you compare them to a lot of these other teams in the league, especially like the New Jersey Devils, Carolina Hurricanes and stuff like that. But the Rangers just looked overly slow in this game, which was nuts. And just to take it one step further going back to Kendall, Pat. A few more underlying numbers. 1437 of 5-on-5 ice time last night.

When he was on the ice, Penguins had 55.5% of the shot attempts, 54% expected goals rate, 64 scoring chances for rate, 75 as you said, hiding your chances full rate. Pretty good in your debut. He was driving offense every time he was out there.

Again, awesome stuff. I do think you may see a linemate change for him on Thursday. We'll preview that for our next episode, but I do think Philip Hollander is going to be taking someone the spot there after I was at practice today. I would not be surprised you that.

But last thing on Kindle, and this is not based, this is strictly based an eye test and vibe test did not look out of place whatsoever. I, the one thing in this is also eye test, but based on the way I watched the game, he was not afraid to go to high danger areas. He was not afraid to go to the corner. He was not afraid to work on the walls.

He was not afraid to go to the front of the net. And he's not the biggest kid. That has kind of been our knock on him in this lead up to this season. is that he's still pretty small and relatively for NHL standards. He's 18 years old. He's going to grow a little bit. He's going to physically mature. But you look at the way he played last night.

He was playing like a kid who's been there for a while, playing like a kid who the spotlight wasn't too big. And we can make our jokes and post our memes about the New York Rangers. But there is an aura to going to Madison Square Garden on the NHL's opening night, on national television against an original six franchise that even some of the most seasoned players will feel that pressure. And for Kindle, just looked like he was out there playing hockey. First off, I can't believe you just said, ORA.

So there's the reference for the kids out there. But the kids didn't invent the word aura. It's existed forever. They don't get to claim that, okay? Hey, I keep hearing it all the time from some of my nephews who are like 17 years old. All they say is like, orah, and I'm like, okay, whatever. But I didn't think I'd hear you say that on the show, but I had the best with you a little bit. But the moment never looked too big for him.

And he looked like he belonged on that ice against some of these really established N-Ageal veterans. Again, only one game, Pat. He's going to have to do a lot more over these next eight potentially to stay up for the rest of the year. That was a great start. He was one of the best players on the ice last night. Wasn't even close. I thought Sid was really good. once again, Gino had an amazing game last night.

And I do want to shout out Chris LaTang as well. He was tremendous all night long, especially being paired next to Ryan Shay, who shouldn't be in your top four. But again, they're not trying to compete this year. So it's whatever. But I thought Latang, great in his own zone, made their correct pinches. Again, that little chip play to Anthony Mantha later on in the game was really good. I liked his effort.

And I especially loved the game Eric Carlson played. the best games he's played as a penguin, always in position, new when to pinch, new when to pullback, was driving offense all night long, even though he didn't get any points during this game, he was still, wait, so I wanted to shout him out too. It was a really great performance top to bottom for me. I know that you nitpicked a little bit. I don't disagree with the nitpicks, but to put a bow on this segment, really, really good first performances from Harrison Brunich and Ben Kindle, a good step on the right direction,

making a case for maybe they should stay past the nine game tryout. But again, it's a start. We'll see what happens over the next few games. That is going to do it, though, for this middle segment when we come back. It's Wednesday. So you know what that means. It's time for us to give out our MVP's of the week as part of Warrior Helmet Wednesday. So stick with us.

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My tummy doesn't hurt as much as it did yesterday. Good news for me, which means I'm back in time for one of my favorite segments of Locked on Penguins. Warrior Helmet Wednesday. If you are new to the show, this is a thing we started a couple of seasons ago. We're paying homage to the 2016 Stanley Cup winning penguins. In the locker room after the game,

the players would give out their player of a game after a win with a cool little warrior helmet. So we've adopted that to give our MVP's of the week. Hunter, I will start with you. Who are you giving this week's warrior helmet too? So I know there's only been one regular season game, but I kind of have to go a little obvious here. Justin Brzoe gets the first warrior helmet of the regular season for me with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Two goals last night, the first one, really nice move in front of the net to beat Igor Shistercan,

gets the empty net goal to really ice the game. I thought he was great all game long, used his size to his advantage. There was a few moments when a few Rangers try to take a couple runs at him, and they just kind of bounced right off him just because he's such a big dude. So I thought again, he was physical, brought the offense, he was fine defensively. I thought he was totally fine next to Hvgeny Malkin and Anthony Manta. I don't think that's going to stick all season just because especially Brian Russ is about to return. Rucker McGority is going to come back at some point this year.

But for that first game, really nice start for him after he signed a contract with the Penguins this summer. He gets my first warrior helmet. but pat looks like you are splitting your warrior helmet for this week i am if you're watching us on youtube you saw the graphic so it has been spoiled but for my warrior helmet i'm splitting it in half this week and it goes to kyle dubus and head coach dan muses i said it earlier this week on the show i have to give them props and kudos for letting their actions match their words we heard all in the lead up to training camp and all throughout camp in the preseason that they weren't going to block the young guys. They were going to give the younger players an opportunity. And they did that

this past week. We just got done raving about Harrison Brunich and Ben Kindle because they played in their first NHL games at Madison Square Garden. Arir Shilovs gets the start in net. Dan Mews has no loyalty to Tristan Jari. Jari has not been his goaltender for more than just a couple of months since he has been hired his head coach. Sheelov's had the better camp. He gives Sheelov's the first start. You look at a lot of the other players in the lineup. There were some younger guys put into more prominent, more higher level roles.

And listen, we're going to do in our Thursday episode our bold takes. We're finally going to do our bold predictions. And here's something I'll tease for one of my bold predictions. This is also a way. to keep a guy like Sidney Crosby happy. Because if you can get him some fresh young talent that shows him there's potential here, it's going to make it a lot more difficult for him to ask out

if he can see that light at the end of the tunnel. And while we don't need to put up the mission accomplished banner, but Dan Mews and Kyle Dubas deserve that credit for saying we are going to give these young guys an opportunity to play in the NHL. And instead of just saying it, they went right along with it. and let them play.

And this won't be the last of the young players that you see in the NHL this year. You're going to see Tristan Bros come up, I think, at some point. I think Avery Hayes is going to be up at some point as well. I do think they're going to call up Boko-I-Mama, at least for a few games as well, just because they like him in the locker room. They like that he brings that physical edge to the lineup when he plays. Again, I definitely think he's going to come up at least at some point the season for a few games. So, again, there's going to be other younger players.

I'll throw Owen Pickering in there as well. I'd like to think that he's going to come up at some point as well. Those are just four right there. Hell, we may even see Sergei Miroshov at the end of the season. So that's five right there, especially if Tristan Jari doesn't really play that well. So this is just the start of some of these younger players getting more opportunities. I think you're going to see more. And, you know, as first said, had the biggest smile on his face when he gave him,

used that puck last night for getting his first win as head coach. Definitely seems like, you know, he has all the respect in the world for him, even though it's only been one game. But, you know, speaking of that, really nice to get on here talking about a win. We'll see if they can make it too on Thursday. And speaking of that, we'll have our preview episode out early in the morning on Thursday.

Penguins Islanders, the home opener for the Penguins. You also get to see Matthew Schaefer, number one overall pick should be a lot of fun. For sure. And before we wrap it up, one other thing that we are doing this season with Warrior Helmet Wednesday,

because we've had some people ask about this. we're tracking it this year. So to date, if you're watching us on YouTube, you can see the tracker up on your screen. But for now, we've got just one with a bunch of people tied for it. Sergei Murashov, Benjamin Kindle, Kyle Dubus, Dan Mews, and Justin Brazoe have the only warrior helmets after two weeks.

We'll keep a track of this. And then you'll see at the end of the season, who gets our season-long warrior helmet by Kliuzeau. the most warrior helmets. But that is going to do it for our Wednesday edition of Locked-on Penguins. For Hunter Hodes, I am Patrick Damp. Thank you, as always, for tuning in. And we will talk to you early on Thursday morning to get you ready for Penguins Islanders.