Locked On Penguins - Daily Podcast On The Pittsburgh Penguins - Yinz ready for another back-to-back?

Episode Date: November 18, 2022

It's an off day for the Pittsburgh Penguins, but that won't be the case this weekend. The Pittsburgh Penguins have ANOTHER back-to-back set and again, both games are on the road. Hunter starts the show by previewing the game against the Winnipeg Jets as they're off to one heck of a start this season. He looks at what is fueling the start and how a lot of their production is only coming from a select number of players. He also looks at how Rick Bowness has done wonders for this team since taking over and ponders if this team can potentially make the playoffs after numerous pundits (one of them being Hunter) picked them to miss the playoffs. He gives some keys for the Penguins to win and who to watch out for before previewing Sunday's matchup against the Chicago Blackhawks. He touches on how awful the Blackhawks are this year and how there's really no excuse for the Penguins to lose this game, even though they're on a B2B. he goes over the expected lineup that you'll see, plus goes into a disturbing stat about just how bad the Penguins have been in Chicago over the last several years. Finally, Hunter discusses the power play and why they should still make some adjustments (Personnel-wise and strategy-wise) if they want to get this thing back on track. All that, plus much more on this episode of Locked On Penguins.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you’ll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts!SimpliSafeWith Fast Protect™️ Technology, exclusively from SimpliSafe, 24/7 monitoring agents capture evidence to accurately verify a threat for faster police response. There’s No Safe Like SimpliSafe. Visit SimpliSafe.com/LockedOnNHL to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hello, Penguins fans, happy Friday, November 18th and off day for your hockey team. But it's about to get pretty busy for this team. A big game on Saturday night in Winnipeg, Manitoba against the Jets. Then they'll fly to Chicago to take on the Blackhawks at the United Center before they will come home and play a couple of games at PPGP's Arena next week. For today's episode, we're going to preview both games this weekend. The first segment will go into the game against Winnipeg, why they've been good this year, why I'm still kind of hesitant to say that they're a

even though they've got a good start, we'll then go into Chicago and why they're just absolutely horrible this season. And then we'll finish off the show talking about the power play and how even though it did look good on Thursday night and went two for five, there's still a lot of areas that I think need to be cleaned up with it. So look for all that coming up 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.

All right, good afternoon. Everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the Locked-on Penguins podcast. I'm your host, Hunter Hodes. Remember to follow me on Twitter at Hunter Hodes. You can also follow the shows, Twitter, at L.O.Rs with Penguins. Yes, Thon, you can say hi. Yep, I can pick you up here. Say hi to the camera.

Yep, wait and wave your paw. Okay, you can go back down now, buddy. Again, plug the socials for you all. Thron has just decided to be a total nut today. Today's episode is brought to you by bed online. line, been in line as you covered this season with more props, odds, and lions that had before. That has been online where the game starts. Again, you can follow me on Twitter, Hunter Hodes, follow the show's Twitter at LRS for Penguins,

and for another time. Thank you so much for making this your first listen of the day. So let's get into today's show the Penguins will face off. The first of two meetings against the Winnipeg Jets and the Jets. So far this year, they've won eight of their last 10 games. They're 10 and 4 and 1. They're one point out of first place in the Central Division right now. that's, I think, kind of due to the avalanche being off to a little bit of a slow star.

They're 9 and 5 and 1, so they're about 19 points. But the Jets have been playing some good hockey this year. And, you know, it looks like Rick Bonas, obviously a good defensive coach. I kind of dumped on that higher when it was made. But, you know, he has the Jets playing some pretty good hockey right now. And, you know, you look at who's leading the way. It's Kyle Connor and Mark Schifley. You know, Connor has 15 points in 15 games.

Five of them are goals. Sheifley actually lead. the team and goals, 10 of them, 14 points in 15 games. Josh Morrissey has 16 points in 15 games. Pure Locke Dubois has been awesome. Neil Pionk, Blake Wheeler, Adam Lowry, the usual suspects for the Winnipeg Jets. And of course, Conner Hellebuck,

who, in my opinion, is one of the three best goldenders in hockey. You look at their lines right now. If you go to Daily Face Off, Connor does play with Shifley and Sam Gagne on the top line. So anytime you can put Connor and Shifley together, good things are going to happen and they both have been awesome this season. Kyle Connor is actually just coming off a hat trick against the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday night. That was a three to two overtime win for the Jets to get to 10 and 4 and 1 on their second line.

Cole Perfetti with Pio Loc Dubois and Blake Wheeler. Wheeler, not what he used to be for sure, but he still has four goals, 10 points in 15 games the season. Dubois is almost at a point per game pace. He's someone to, I think, keep an eye on these next couple of years. I'm not really sure if he's going to be resigning in Winnipeg. I've listened to 32 thoughts a couple of times over the years where they've talked about DuBois. He seems intent on testing free agency. I don't know if he wants to sign back there.

But as long as he keeps playing at this pace, he's going to get a lot of money for whoever signs him after this season. And then it's in the season after that. Adam Lowry is on the third line. David Gustafsson's on their fourth line. Their bottom six just kind of has. a bunch of players who, you know, I guess they're kind of eh, to say the least, you know, two of their players down there for combined points. Axel Janssen, Fialb.

I think he was a former member of the Capitals. He only has one goal in 13 games this season. Dominic Toninado, no points this season. A lot of their players down in the bottom six have really just not done anything. It's mainly been their top six that's carried them this season. season and oh gee what do you know that's basically what's happened with the penguins so far even though they're a little further behind the standings you know the situations are kind of similar the jets literally get no offense from their bottom six outside of adam lowry who has three goals and

eight points so far this season everyone else either has one or basically no goals all of their offense forward wise has come from dubois schifley and conner one of their big inj one of their big injuries right now uh nikolai elers he is still on i r they're also with Dylan DeMello, Mason Appleton, Morgan Barron, Logan Stanley. Defensively, it's not the best group, but they get the job done. Morrissey, he has been electric for the Jets this season, leads the team in points. You know, he's someone who you don't usually would think is a number one defenseman, but he is still a good player.

Neil Pionk had a really good year a couple of years ago. Kind of went in the opposite direction last year. This year, though, off to a good star looking like the Neil Pionk that we saw from a couple years ago, Brendan Dillon, former Washington Capitol, and Nate Schmidt, former Washington Capitol. They are both on the same pairing together. And then Dylan Sandberg and Kyle Capo Bianco are that makes up the third pairing. So they're not deep on defense, but they do have some good players down there who can push the puck, play well in their own zone. And, you know, when you play a style that, you know, Rick Bonas, you know, that kind of coaching where it's very defensive,

scoring game savings, you know, Rick Bonas, if he could win every game one-nothing or two to one, he would. Heck, even maybe three to two sometimes is a little too much for him. But, you know, you know, you're going to get. I think the Penguins, they're going to have to, you know, they're not going to get a ton of good chances on Saturday, but the ones that they do get, they're going to have to try to make them count because Annette is the greatest equalizer, and that is Connor Helbeauke, who again, he's at least the third best goal in hockey. You can even make an argument that he is better than Nasolevsky or Shasturkin. I personally think they are just a little step above Hellebuk, but, you know,

Hellebuk is off to another great start. He's honestly been carrying, you know, that team for the last several years. The Jets are a team to me, could they make the playoffs? Sure, they're off to a good start right now. They're one point out of the Central Division. But, you know, I just don't see them as a team that it would really go anywhere once they get in. I mean, sure, Hellebuck gives them a chance in any game. but even with Eilers back,

I just don't think they have the offensive firepower to compete with a team like Colorado in a seven-game series to compete with a team maybe even like, I don't know, Dallas in a seven-game series. I think Minnesota and St. Louis are going to start waking up here at some point. They mainly just rely on a few players to score their goals, and everyone else just goes out and plays defensive-minded hockey. So as long as the Penguins, they're able to contain Connor, Shifley, Wheeler,

and Dubois and all those guys, you know, they should be fine to win this game unless, you know, Conor Hello just comes out and has a 50 safe shutout or something like that. Special teams-wise, Winnipeg, kind of an okay power play, but penalty kill-wise, they rank third in the league in PK percentage. So that's going to be a big test for the Penguins unit with that. They're going to have to, you know, make sure their zone injuries are on point, make sure they're not overpassing, getting the puck to the net like they were a couple of times on power plays. late in the game against Minnesota.

You know, the two power play goals that they scored, the zone entries were solid. They didn't overpass. And again, you saw Latang, getting more aggressive at the point, right? And he fired that slap shot to the left side of the net. Pass Philip Guffis and I want to see more of that from him. I thought Latang played the best game of his season,

one of the best games of his season last night. And then the second power play goal, which came from Gensel to Crosby, you know, that beautiful pass right through the blueprint, it is able to just, you know, somehow score that, even though I don't even know how that pass went through. I don't know if you're going to get that kind of chance against a Rick bonus level squad,

but, you know, it's still, it's plays like that that you want to try to get the puck to the net and have good things happen. So, you know, I think that's going to be a big key for me in this one is for the Penguins to find a way to break through that really stingy Winnipeg penalty killing unit. Again, if they just, kind of make it a wash with the top six.

I think the Penguins' bottom six is better than Winnipeg's, and that says a lot because I don't really think the Penguins' bottom six is that good either. So this should be a really good game. I think this is a good test right now just because the Jets are one of the hottest teams in the league. They've won eight out of ten. They're one point out of second and east at one point out of first. In the Central Division, they have one of the best goaltenders in hockey, who I believe right now is top five to ten and goals stayed above expected.

He's going to be a candidate for the Vesna again. You know, that team felt like they needed a big change in the coaching leadership coming into the season. And so far, bonus, after he quote unquote retired, he's been doing a great job with him. And I'll be curious to see if that continues. So big game on tap for this one. Those are my main keys for the Penguins, I think, to win that game. Obviously, you want to have a good start, Winnipeg's Arena. It's usually a tough place to play, and it's one of the loudest arenas in the NHL.

You know Jets fans are always going to bring it. not a whiteout in the playoffs. That's when it gets ridiculously loud, but still, you know, Jets fans, they're very loyal. And, you know, especially with how great of a start they're off to, they're going to pack that building and make it very difficult for the penguins to win. As for who starts, it's kind of a toss-knap. Would not be surprised if they do go back to Tristan to try to say,

hey, you know, go out and prove that, you know, that last start was not you, and that the last several other starts before that were not you. You know, we'll have to see. but I also would not be surprised if it is Casey to Smith. If it were me, I'd probably go Jari for this one, and then DeSmith for the one in Chicago. You could do either one just because the Blackhawks are not that good, and I'm going to touch on them a little later on in this episode.

But, you know, all that matters is that this team gets better goal-turning down the stretch. None of their improved play, 5-5, penalty kill, defensively with taking care of the puck. None of that is going to matter. if this team cannot get saves on a consistent basis. It doesn't matter who is in the net. Tristan Jari, for example, I had 919 save percentage last year, about 58 appearances this year, well below 900, bottom 5 to bottom 10, and, you know,

goals state above expected. You know, for someone that wants to get paid, you know, he's not showing the management regime that he deserves that right now. And if he doesn't turn around, I don't think the penguins will hesitate to look somewhere else for their number one goaltender after the season. So again, none of their, none of this recent play will matter unless the team doesn't

start getting saves from either goaltender. They've won three out of five. It's good. They've climbed back up into close to the playoff position. There are three points out. Right now, if my math, that's correct, they're about ninth, tenth place in the east. They're not in 14th or 15th anymore. It's, they're kind of just in a jumbled mess of teams right now.

But still, you know, they got to get saves on a consistent basis. Tristan led a few goals in last night that he usually doesn't. That game probably should have been six to two, six to one or something like that. So we'll have to see what happens with the goalies. And I'll say the same for DeSmith. He needs to be a bit better as well. So that wraps up this preview for the game against the Jets. It's always fun watching them play Winnipeg.

I love watching Kyle Connor and Shifley has been underrated for numerous years at this point. And I know Wheeler used to be awesome and he's kind of say he's fully washed, though he's getting there at this point. you know, he's still always been a good player. And of course, I always love watching Carr Hallibuck. He's incredible. So that wraps up this segment. Coming up in the second segment, we're going to preview the game against the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday, and just look into how brutal they have been this year. But before I get to that, let's get into Bet Online.

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So let's get into the Chicago Blackhawks this season. This is the Hawks team that they were set up to tank this season. You know, their management regime came out and said, yeah, we're going to stink. That's the direction we're going in, rebuilding. Jonathan Taves and Patrick Kane obviously are not happy about it. I have to think they're going to get traded before the trade deadline. I think they're going to have suitors. Kane especially, he's still a world-class talent.

Taves is still a good player, not nearly what he used to be. I still remember when people used to say that he was better than Cindy Crosby. Hint, he was never better than Cindy Crosby. I don't know why that trend even started. To begin with, I guess people just hated Cid that much. But still, good player can be serviceable on a cup contender. I think both of them will be gone by the time the trade deadline rolls around. Right now, the Hawks, they've lost eight out of ten.

They're six and seven and three to start the season. They're in second to last place of the central division. It's crazy that they're only one point, though, behind the blues in the wild. Two teams that, you know, we're trying to contend this season. That just goes to show, you know, just how bad that division has been. I mean, heck, the Blackhawks are, I can look at the dissentings right here. There are two points out of fourth. The Predators are 8 and 8 and 1.

Heck, there are four points out of third behind the Abiland. It's just, you know, obviously some of those teams are going to pass the Blackhawks at some point, but it's really funny how some of these teams in there just have not pulled away. They're just off to some slowestarts. But the Hawks, they're not going to be going anywhere this year. Just look at the lineup that I'm about to show you all. I mean, Philip Kourashev, Max Domi, Patrick Kane. I mean, when Max Domi is your top line center, it's just an unsurious team right there.

Andreas FNus CU Jonathan Taves and then Taylor Radish On the second line I've been to see you I definitely think he can get something at the trade deadline He's always been a pretty streaky score Someone who has a nice shot We're not be surprised if the Blackhawks Maybe got like a mid-round pick

Or something like that On their third line Old Penguin Sam Lafferty Jason Dickinson and then McKenzie Entwistle Colin Blackwell Reese Johnson and Boris Katchuk On the fourth line So just not a lot there

forward twice. You obviously know Kane, Taves, they're great. Max Domi. He's a good player and I think he could definitely be had at the deadline for a decent package as well. Maybe they could try to get a first for him. I don't know if they could but I'm sure they're going to try. Definitely I think a second

I do think a team will pay a second for Max Domi Domi just on the name alone. Athanasiau, Kura Shev, I think could go, Dickinson, who they acquired from Vancouver. I think he could go. They have a lot of flip candidates there where they can just keep stockpiling on graphics during this rebuild defensively their lineup.

I'm not kidding. Jack Johnson is on their top pair with Ian Mitchell, Jared Tenorty, Connor Murphy, Jake McCabe, who is honestly not a bad player is on their third pairing. And then Philip Ruse is on their third pairing as well. That honestly might be one of the worst defensive pairings I've ever seen in my life. I do not think other than Jake McCabe, who's okay, none of those defensemen are any good. The Penguins, I know that they're going to be playing on a back-to-back in three games and four nights. They basically almost have no excuse to lose that game. I know they're playing

in Chicago a place that they have not won in since NOM. The fact that I can't even remember the last time they won in Chicago just goes to show how awful they are there at the United States. I'm going to actually try to look this up for the Penguins. Last time, the Penguins won in Chicago because I am trying to figure this out and I just really I mean I wish I could I wish I could find this head to head well at least I found the head to head. Yeah. Okay. So I believe 2014, if I if this is correct you, I believe this is correct, the last time the Penguins won in Chicago.

was almost a decade ago. That is how bad it has been for the Penguins. They have just had literally no luck playing the Blackhawks in Chicago. And honestly, I honestly might even be wrong about that. I think it might be even long. I might be looking at a home game. But just overall, they have awful luck there at the United Center. And they need to reverse that trend pretty quickly here.

This is a horrific Black Hawk's team. They do not do anything well. Special teams, 5E5, defending. Heck, even their goaltending this year. I mean, Peter Morazek, Arvid Soderblum, I mean, this is a lineup that is truly set up to tank. It's a bad team that Penguins should utterly dismantle the Hawks in both games this year. Again, if there's any a time to break that streak at the United Center where they have not won in numerous years, this would be the one.

It's basically been the Penguins' House of Horrors during the Crosby-Malkin era. That's at least when the Blackhawks had their good teams. I still wish the Penguins and the Blackhawks would have had a really fun Stanley Cup final when both were really in their heyday and almost had it in 2013. But the Penguins obviously got swept. But, no, it would have been a lot of fun. Now, the keys for that game, you know, just, you know, keep it short, keep it simple. The Blackhawks don't have good goaltending.

defensively they're an absolute mess. Excuse me, they only have a couple of forwards who are really worth a damn. At this point, they traded Alex DeBrinken and got peanuts in return. That should be a team that they win comfortably over. Even though it's on a back-to-back, and I know any given day is a thing in the NHL,

this should be a game that the Penguins win and win comfortably. I don't care which goaltenders in the net. I don't care that you're on a back-to-back, even though you're coming from Winnipeg the night before. the penguins have to win that game. And the Hawks just stink.

So, you know, when you're playing a team that's openly admitted to tanking for Connor Bedard and you're trying to contend, you've got to get, I want to want to call them gimmie points, but they're also kind of our gimmie points. So you got to get, you got to bang those points at the end of the day. So that wraps up this preview for the game against the Blackhawks looking at their lineup and looking at just some keys of the game. and, you know, just making sure that, you know, you're not letting two goalies who are really past their prime to this point beats you.

The penalty kill continuing to have that momentum, 5B5, just grinding the Blackhawks down just because they have some of the worst underlying numbers in the league. So really curious to see how that one goes. If you want more on the Blackcocks, you can follow Jack Bushman of Locked on Blackhawks. He does a great job with his show. But, you know, these two games this weekend, very. important for the penguins, if they can steal four out of four points, you know, that would be huge because after that, if they would be coming home, winning five for their last seven games,

and I think the fan base would be definitely a lot more comfortable about the state of the team, rather than if they were to get swept and get zero out of four points, or if they were even only to get one out of four points. Two out of four, I think that would be okay, especially, even if you lose against Winnipeg and then beat the Blackhawks, but it would be, total penguins if they were to beat the jets on Saturday and then beat the, okay, thron, thron, thron, thron, thron. Don't itch yourself right there and make the noise, okay? It would be total penguins to beat the jets on Saturday and then go to the United Center

and get blown up by the Blackhawks. I mean, come on. It does not get any more pits for penguins related than that. But again, that wraps up the second segment. Coming up in the final segment, we're going to get into the power play and why. there's still some things that I think this team needs to clean up with that union, maybe like one or two adjustments that I would like to see them make. So stick around for that coming up right after this.

All right, I'm back here on this episode of the Lockdown Penguins podcast. I am your host, Honor Hodes. Remember to follow me on Twitter at Honor Hodeon. You can also follow the shows, Twitter, at Elmore School Penguins. And, of course, thank you all so much for making this your first listen of the day. So let's get into the PowerPoint. They were two for five against the wild on 13. the night, the Christensen's angle on the 5-on-3.

That was his first of the season. And then Crosby gets the goal later in the third period to make it 4-2. And obviously a beautiful pass from Gensold to Crosby right in the net front. But otherwise, the power play just looked very disinterested. And I even put out a tweet that I still think Stans today that I just don't know what they really do to practice the power play during those practice sessions. It just seems like they keep doing the same stuff. And they're hoping that it works. And sure, you know, it worked against the wild.

You scored two power play goals. But going up against a team like Winnipeg, who again is one of the most dingy penalty killing units in the league, I don't think that stuff is going to work. And for those zone entries, I would love to see them get away from that drop pass where Chris LaTang is coming up. And then he just kind of sky hooks it.

I wouldn't say sky hooks it, but he just passes it back, leaves it for a Gennie Malkin who comes into the zone. But, you know, a lot of times, a decent amount of times, I should say, He comes into the zone and then the puck is just taken from him and then it's just fired down or whoever it is. And I just don't think it's a good recipe for success. I don't know why you have to go backwards in order to go forwards on the power plate. Just when the puck is cleared down the length of the ice, Tristan Darry, Casey Smith has to come out to give it to you. Just come up the ice and just go into the zone.

Make a pass. You don't need to pass it back to have zone injuries. I just don't understand that. We've seen it so many times over the. years with this unit. It does not matter who is coaching the power play unit the first or second one. They have that stupid draw pass and it drives me absolutely crazy. I still noticed that they were also overpassing a lot in that game against the wild. I've said it so many times. I'll say it again. They always try to look for that perfect play to Harlem Globe Trotter you when in reality,

you know, simple is best. And you saw that on that five on three. I would just love for the penguins to do that every single time. Crosby and Malkin Pass. We, other comes to latang boom shot goal just do that more often and i know it's on a five on three so it's a little bit different but on a five on four you can still make that work and look for potentially a deflection in front you don't need to be going back and forth over there over there over there over there just you know do a few passes get a shot on net get some traffic in front bang homer rebound all that sort of stuff it just seems like at times that they're not practicing the unit enough and you know we see the same old garbage that we've seen, you know, for the last couple of weeks.

Otherwise, I think I would be down for personnel change. Just because Brian Russ is not playing well right now overall, he hasn't really done anything on the power play all year anyway. Why don't you put Ricard Raquel up there? You already have elevated him to the Crosby line. I think he would be a great player to have on that first unit. A, he's trigger-happy. He has no problem shooting the puck.

I think he has one of the best releases on the team. And B, he's also a really serious. silky pastor and has a good feel for the front of the net. You can also put him on the half wall where sit is sometimes. He can put him behind the net. He can play a lot of different positions, I think, on the power play. So that is definitely an area that I would look to change if I were Mike Sullivan. I would make the decision to change that.

That's just my opinion, though, just because I think Russ just needs to be sat down and, you know, when I say sat down, I don't mean benched, but I think sat down and just, you know, showing him some film and be like, okay, you know, you've got to settle down here. You're trying to do too much. We're going to take you off the top power pool unit until you get back to how you usually play at 5B5. Once you do that, we'll put you back on the top powerplay unit and then you'll resume your duties. And I think that would be best for the payments at this point.

Is Mike Sullivan going to do it? Probably not right now, but, you know, just because they scored two powerplay goals on Thursday, but if the unit does continue to have more struggles outside of that two goal game, I do think you will see a potential change, excuse me, in that area. And again, Raquel, you know, he's great on the second unit. He fires the puck very often him. Zulgrin is honestly why you see the second unit outpacing and sometimes outproducing the first unit. Petrie at the point, he's never really been that good of a power play quarterback throughout his career.

The numbers are not super clinging to him, but he's been trigger happy as well. He's getting the puck to the front and then. He's also been doing a good job going to the right side. of the offensive zone coming down towards the side of the net and then, you know, firing it, either firing it back up to the point or just firing it to the net. He's reading the ice really well, I think, on the power plate right now. And then when you have Zucker, who has no problem firing the puck to the net, he's been outstanding this season. And Ricardo Raquel, who I think should be on the top unit. And then Dayton Hinen, who usually has a great shot as well. You know,

it definitely has the makings of a very solid second unit. And it's why you've seen the Penguins can, you know, score a few goals with that new. this year. So that's really what I have to say about the powerplay and their struggles. I'm still not particularly happy with that first unit. I still want to see more consistency with them and hopefully a personnel change. But the recipe for success, for that unit, it was there on Thursday. You saw on those two power play goals how, you know, they can be successful almost against basically any penalty killing unit. But, you know, the other times especially when you play a team like the Jets,

they're going to make it easy on you if you just play the way you did on your other three powerplays against the Penguins. I'll have to hope that they can carry over that level on the two powerplaces that they scored over the game against Winnipeg and in the game against Chicago. And that will wrap up today's episode of the Lockdown Penguins podcast. I really appreciate all of you listening to this one.

For next week, we're going to fully recap both games over the weekend against Winnipeg and Chicago. also going to do preview some of the other games and then of course recap them on the show and of course touch on a whole multitude of other topics surrounding this team and before i let you all go i was i thought it was 2014 that last time the penguins won in chicago but i then it came to my memory like nope i think that was the year when patrick kane had that shootout winner um against them when he deeped mark andre fleurie's um toes off but the last time they they beat chicago at the United Center, February 27th, 2009, a five to four overtime win when Antini Emmy was in net for

the Blackhawks. And obviously, the Penguins won the Stanley Cup that year. And here's another thing. This might make you feel old. It makes me feel old, that's for sure. I just turned 25, three days ago, the Penguins last one in Chicago when I was 11 years old. They are due. This has been a total house of horrors for them for the last decade and decade plus they need to win this time in chicago so we'll have to see if they can accomplish that feat on sunday again thank you all so much for listening and i will talk with you all on monday