Sidney Crosby will officially be back in the lineup tonight
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Welcome back to Pomp and Joe. City Limits with us out here at the Baseball Card Castle in Cranberry. We're getting Feed the Need kicked off today. The official start is next Tuesday, but we're getting a head start. A lot of people coming in, dropping off donations in person. You can text NEED to 50... Wait, what is it, Limits? I just lost the sheet. I don't want to give out the wrong number here. So hold on one sec on that. But a lot of people... Have come in here today. It's just been a ton of fun, as it always is with the general text need to 50155 to donate directly to the Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. And I'll give those items that people are bidding on in just a moment here. But first, let's kick it off a limitless wonder with the Limitless Express fan Twitter brought to you by South Hills Kia Peters Township.
It's them at South Hills Kia dot net. The text line brought to you by Edgar Snyder and Associates Personal Injury Law Firm. where they always say there's never a fee unless we get money for you. And the hotline presented by Sullivan Super Service, Pittsburgh's trusted plumbing and HVAC provider for over 50 years. Let's do this. Joe, it is now official. The Penguins tweet, the captains return. Penguins, Hurricanes, 7 p.m. tonight with a picture of Sid by the dot. He's back. Bob, I think I'm coming over to your house to watch this tonight. Are you going to be down at KDKA? No, I'm going to be babysitting tonight. Ah, this is must-watch television. Everything's must-watch. And given the stakes that are involved, the Penguins being seven points behind Carolina, team that played last night and lost, they're going to be back home.
But Penguins have a lot of jump right now. And now all the lines, the original lines that we saw from the Penguins when they were doing well are back together because Brezeau now moves to his normal spot between – you know, Kendall and Mantha on that line. Malkin goes with the Novak Chinnikov. It's all right there for them. Now, the question is how effective will, you know, Crosby be in this first? If I know anything about Sidney Crosby, he'll pick up as if he was never injured at all. Well, and the timeline, remember when it first came out, was at least, what did they say, four weeks at the time? Yes, four weeks. At least four weeks. This feels earlier than that. I think they said it was retroactive to the injury, and it's certainly not going to be later than that.
This is... A gigantic boost for a team that, as we said at the beginning, is not out of the woods by any means. Not when Columbus is something like 17-2-4, and they're in the ninth spot. And the Islanders are right behind you, and they've been red hot at 9-3 in their past 12. The Bruins are on a 15-4-6 run. They've been a little bit up and down lately, but they seem to get points even when they lose. The only team in that mix that's struggling really, I mean, the Penguins haven't been great. They've been surviving, is the Red Wings. So like we said earlier, Bob, one three-game losing streak, you mix it with somebody else's three-game winning streak, you're going to be on the outside looking in. They have to keep getting points.
Another team to watch here is Ottawa. Yeah, they're surging. They're surging. Next up for the Islanders is Ottawa. And that's a team that has played very well. And if the Penguins could just somehow win this game tonight, especially in regulation, which is going to be the key, they have tiebreakers on regulation. That's the number one tiebreaker. So if they do end up with a tie with one of these teams, the Penguins would have an advantage there. The Penguins could get a jump here on the Islanders if Ottawa wins that game tomorrow night. And Joe, it is exactly one month to the day from when Crosby was injured. February 18th, last month. Today, March 18th, he makes his return. There you go. Perfect, perfect timing, and that's going to be an entertaining game.
Carolina lost last night, did they not? Yes, they got hammered by Columbus. So they're on back-to-back nights here.
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