Pomp

People are pumped to see this team, to see this guy.

Just had Noah Hiles on from the Post-Gazette.

He thinks Connor Griffin's going to start with the big club.

I'm not sure I believe that.

But as he said, we're getting real close to the point where if he's still here, that becomes a much better bet.

He said that Skeens was sent down the first week of March.

We'll see.

We'll see in about a week, week and a half what's happening here.

The Pirates are suddenly a feel-good story.

The Penguins are undeniably a feel-good story.

That place, I wasn't there, but watching on television, you could tell the place was jumping when they turned it up about 10 notches at the beginning of the third period.

They're good.

The Penguins are good.

That's sort of the story with them.

We're deep enough into the season where

Where there's really nothing fluky about this.

And we're on the 26 watch.

I'm going to put up a little piece of paper here.

Starting yesterday, they had 26 games left and they needed 26 points in my estimation to make the playoffs.

They just got two more.