Joe Starkey

Who did they play that year?

Rangers?

Islanders?

It was the year that Jari was hurt, and they were just rotating through the goaltender, and Louis DeVing was playing.

Spicy pork and broccoli.

He was in there for a game.

And I was there.

I was out at the big screen with a couple of friends of mine watching.

Even when they made the playoffs in those years, it just felt kind of inevitable that they would lose and just a little less buzz.

Like everybody knew they sort of didn't have a chance.

Now, who knows in this wide open East and with the momentum that they have.

And that's the other thing.

That's the other thing about the Penguins is that the older guys are at the tops of their games.

All of them.

Carlson, 35.

is playing, like I said, as good of an offensive brand of hockey from a defenseman as any Penguin since Paul Coffey.

Better than any since Paul Coffey.

Chris Letang has suddenly found his game.

Him and Gerrard together.

Sid and Gino actually got rest in the final quarter of the season.