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For the first time in a while, there is now some clarity on the Pittsburgh Penguins‘ injury situation.
On Wednesday’s GM Show, Penguins’ general manager and president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas provided some clarity on the statuses of forwards Justin Brazeau, Noel Acciari, and Rickard Rakell. Brazeau and Acciari made the trip to Tampa Bay with the Penguins, as they play the Lightning Thursday then head to Dallas to take on the Stars Sunday.
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However, that doesn’t mean they’ll hit the ice in the next two games. Dubas told Josh Getzoff on the GM Show that Brazeau and Acciari should be out roughly another seven to 10 days, while Rakell will still be out another three to four weeks.
Brazeau, 27, and Acciari, 34, both missed all of November with upper-body injuries. Brazeau had six goals and 12 points in 12 games prior to his injury, while Acciari had led Penguins’ forwards in hits and blocked shots at the time of his injury.
Rakell, 32, was injured in an Oct. 25 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets when a shot block hit his left hand, which required surgery to repair the break. He had three goals and eight points in nine games at the time, and he was playing on the top line with Sidney Crosby and Bryan Rust.
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Since all three players went down, the Penguins had a 4-5-3 in the month of November after getting off to an 8-2-2 start. However, they have won three out of their last four games and have gotten some reinforcements in Rutger McGroarty and Boko Imama, both of whom were recalled from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (AHL) prior to Monday’s win against the Philadelphia Flyers.
After Dallas on Sunday, the Penguins return home to face the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday and begin a five-game homestand.
Takeaways: Penguins Put Forth Dominant Effort In 5-1 Win Over Flyers
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PHILADELPHIA — Sidney Crosby says, no, of course he has not heard from Mario Lemieux recently as the current Penguins captain moves closer to taking another franchise record from his mentor.
Crosby is seven shy of Lemieux for the most regular-season points with the Penguins. He already holds the team record for regular and postseason points combined.
Heck, play Philadelphia a few more times each season, and Crosby could have shattered the record years ago.
Crosby scored his 58th and 59th career goals against the Flyers on Monday night. His continued excellence in the cross-state rivalry helped lead the Penguins to a 5-1 win.
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Crosby, who has 18 goals this season, has dominated the Flyers like no other visiting player has done in Philadelphia’s franchise history. He has 59 goals and 137 points in 92 games against Philadelphia, the most in both categories any opponent has ever put up on the Flyers.
The 38-year-old Crosby has 1,716 career points, close to eclipsing Lemieux’s 1,723 for most in franchise history. Lemieux owned the team when Crosby captained the Penguins to championships in 2009, 2016 and 2017.
Lemieux seems to be saving his well-wishes for when the record ultimately falls.
“I’m sure he knows me well enough to know that’s not something I really want to talk about it,” Crosby said. “Just go out there and play. If it happens, it happens.”
It will happen. Soon.
Crosby is in the thick of the hunt for the NHL goals lead. Colorado’s Nathan MacKinnon and Boston’s Morgan Geekie each have 20.
The Flyers promoted the game all night as a Keystone Rivalry game but the series — even as fans voraciously booed Crosby with each touch — has never been much of a rivalry. Crosby has won three Stanley Cup titles while the Flyers have won only two in franchise history, in 1974 and 1975. Crosby wasn’t even born until 1987.
“It’s always been a rivalry, long before I played here,” Crosby said. “These games, you always know there’s a little more intensity, a little more to them. You just try to prepare accordingly. I just tried to get ready like everyone else.”
Crosby has never played like everyone else. He did enough damage to snap the Flyers’ modest three-game winning streak — and help Pittsburgh rebound from a 7-2 loss to Toronto.
“When you have a game like that, you just want to respond, regardless of who you’re playing,” Crosby said.
Crosby scored to give the Penguins a 1-0 lead — his 60th career road game-opening goal — and added a wrist shot through traffic on the power play for a 2-1 lead in the second period.
The Penguins were one of the early surprises of the NHL season until a stretch of seven losses in nine games in November. The team considered a long shot to reach the playoffs when the season began — only Chicago and San Jose faced slimmer odds of hoisting the Stanley Cup — has since tumbled from the top spot in the Metropolitan Division it held a month into the season.
The perpetually rebuilding Flyers and Penguins are tied with 31 points apiece.
Crosby at least gives Penguins and NHL fans a reason to watch — his No. 87 jersey was spotted around the concourse more than any Flyer — and chasing Lemieux can spice up an otherwise dead zone in the schedule. Even his teammates, who watch him practice and play on the daily, remain in awe of Crosby.
“It shows you what kind of exceptional player and person that he is, to never be satisfied with anything,” said Bryan Rust, who had a goal and two assists in the victory over the Flyers. “Everything he’s done at a team level, at an individual level, on and off the ice. It’d be easy to kind of start to pull back the reins a little bit, but I think it’s almost like it’s almost fueling him a little bit more to get more and more.”
For the first time in weeks, it felt like a winning result for the Pittsburgh Penguins was never really in doubt throughout the game.
And it was certainly a performance that was much-needed.
On Monday, the Penguins made their way to Philadelphia and took care of business against the Flyers with a dominant 5-1 win. The Penguins largely outplayed the Flyers and were bailed out on a few good looks from the opposition by goaltender Tristan Jarry, who put up another outstanding performance, stopping 28 of 29 shots.
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The Flyers had some chances against in the first period, but Jarry came through. And the Penguins broke through on the scoreboard first when – who else – Sidney Crosby scored his 17th goal of the season at the midway point.
If there was a time in this game where the Penguins played with fire, it was in the early part of the second period. Leading 1-0, Erik Karlsson took a tripping penalty to give the Flyers a power play, and Connor Clifton – back in the lineup for the first time in five games – took an interference penalty 43 seconds later to give Philadelphia the five-on-three for more than a minute.
In the waning seconds of the five-on-three, Tyson Foerster – who was injured shortly after on a shot attempt and did not return – scored to tie the game at 1-1, but before the goal, Kris Letang was called for high-sticking. So the Penguins had to kill off yet another five-on-three right after the goal.
And their penalty kill unit came through. Blake Lizotte, Erik Karlsson, and Parker Wotherspoon were particularly impressive on it, and by limiting the damage on that series of penalties, they were able to seize back the momentum they had prior to the penalties.
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From there, the Penguins completely took over the game. They got a power play shortly after the expiration of Letang’s penalty, and Crosby came through with his second tally of the game on a beautiful passing play by Erik Karlsson and Bryan Rust, who found Crosby in the slot. Rust added another power play goal – and his third point of the night – near the end of the middle frame on a snipe from the left circle.
And, from there, the Penguins’ pressure never wavered. The Flyers got some chances in the final frame, but their high-danger opportunities were limited by the Penguins’ defense. And, when they did get some decent looks, Jarry was there to stop them.
Tommy Novak added his third goal of the season with a little more than six minutes to go – the Penguins’ third power play goal of the night – and Kevin Hayes took a perfect stretch pass from Parker Wotherspoon on a breakaway, which he was able to capitalize on to score against his former team and send the Penguins home with the 5-1 win.
After one of their worst efforts of the season Saturday against the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Penguins responded with one of the best of the season Monday.
Here are a few takeaways from this one:
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– It’s beyond incredible how much Crosby absolutely terrorizes the Flyers.
He has more goals (58), assists (78), and points (136) than anyone in NHL history against the Flyers. And you can always tell there’s an extra jump in his step when the Penguins play their cross-state rivals, who he once admitted that he didn’t like.
The crowd continues to boo him relentlessly, and he continues to score relentlessly. If Crosby played every game against the Flyers, he’d already have a few 200-point seasons under his belt. Probably.
– None of them had a point Monday, but the third line of Ben Kindel, Ville Koivunen, and Rutger McGroarty – recalled Monday from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (WBS) after recording four goals and seven points in five AHL games – was very good in this game.
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They seemed to be generating chances every time they touched the puck. Some rust was evident with McGroarty, as the puck rolled off his stick a few times. But he had some pretty instant chemistry with Kindel, Kindel already had chemistry with Koivunen, and McGroarty and Koivunen developed chemistry last season in WBS that was on display throughout the night.
In particular, I thought Koivunen had a very strong game. He came so, so close to scoring his first NHL goal yet again, and he actually had a wide-open two-on-one opportunity late in the third that he simply fanned on.
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If the “kid line” stays intact and plays the way it did Monday, they’re going to be a lot of fun to watch – and they’re going to put up some numbers down the road.
And, don’t worry, the goal will come for Koivunen, too. And given how snakebitten he is right now, it will probably be the flukiest goal in NHL history.
– Jarry is making a very good case right now to get the majority of the Penguins’ starts. Arturs Silovs has struggled in his last two outings, both of which he needed pulled from.
Of course, it’s way too premature to write off Silovs. Prior to these last two games, he was very good for the most part. But Jarry is helping them win hockey games right now, and with a tough stretch ahead against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday, the Dallas Stars on Sunday, and the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday, he should get the net for most of the games for the time being.
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The Penguins have a lot of goaltending depth, and Jarry knows it. It’s nice to see him separating himself, especially after the season he had last year.
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– Wotherspoon and Karlsson were phenomenal in this game. And, although their assists were gorgeous in this one, I’m speaking more so on the defensive side of things.
Wotherspoon continues to be a steadying presence on the blue line, and his net-front defense was particularly good Monday. He uses his stick well, and he’s not afraid to engage physically, either. He plays such a simple defensive game, and he has been a revelation on that first pairing.
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And speaking of simplicity… what a difference a season and a new coaching staff have made for Karlsson. He’s legitimately playing defense this season, and a large part of that has been about him simplifying as well. I think Wotherspoon has rubbed off on him a bit in that sense, but I also think he’s also just playing within a system that makes a whole lot more sense for him.
He’s also been stellar on the penalty kill, which was something almost foreign to him prior to this season. He joked with TSN Saturday that it took 17 years for a coach to figure out that he could kill penalties.
Well, Karlsson is killing penalties. And he’s doing a heck of a job with it alongside his defense partner. The two of them have been outstanding for most of this season.
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– Hayes and Novak have been markedly better in this last handful of games. And, yes, the Penguins are definitely missing Rickard Rakell and Justin Brazeau.
But they’re both doing fine as placeholders and complementary pieces until those guys get back.
I think the Penguins having an effective third line really makes a difference for the rest of the lineup because there is not as much raw pressure on those guys to perform. Neither of them are trying do too much, and they are benefitting from the Penguins being able to roll four lines.
I think they’ll be fine enough to keep in those roles until Rakell and Brazeau return. Then, the lineup can go from there.
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– There was a funny little moment post-whistle when Trevor Zegras confronted Penguins’ physical defensive defenseman Connor Clifton and tried to fake him out a few times.
The veteran in Clifton didn’t budge. It was cringey yet very funny to watch.
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Sidney Crosby scored two at the Xfinity Mobile Arena against the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday and with that performance, he added another milestone to his ongoing dominance of his in-state rivals.Â
Crosby became the all-time scorer against the Flyers on Monday night, amassing 59 goals and 137 points against Philly in his career. His legacy in this matchup is impossible to ignore, with every meeting seeming to follow the same script.
And it was no different this time around.
Coming off the back of a successful penalty kill, the Pittsburgh Penguins flew through the neutral zone before Bryan Rust fired a shot on net that was saved by Dan Vladar. The rebound fell perfectly for Crosby, who tapped in his 17th of the year and gave the home side the 1-0 advantage halfway through the first.
The goal also marked another career achievement for the Pittsburgh captain. It was his 60th career road game-opening goal, and he has now passed Jaromir Jagr (59) for the third most in NHL history. Brett Hull (65) and Alexander Ovechkin (73) remain above him.
Midway through the second period Crosby then added his 18th goal of the season, bringing him up to third in the league behind Boston Bruins’ Morgan Geekie and Colorado Avalanche’s Nathan Mackinnon, who both sit at 20.
Rust once again slipped into a dangerous position before finding Crosby in the slot who made no mistake and buried the go-ahead goal to make it 2-1.
Once the Penguins finish up in Philadelphia, they travel to Tampa on Thursday to take on the Lightning. The Flyers host the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday.
It’s a new season, and Pittsburgh Penguins‘ prospects are off to a pretty good start this season.
GM/POHO Kyle Dubas has managed to infuse the Penguins’ organization with a lot of promising talent in the last two-plus years by acquiring prospects and accruing draft capital, and the Penguins’ enhanced development staff has also helped young players already in the organization begin to find potential paths to the NHL.
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And the Penguins have a good amount of depth at the goaltending position. So much, in fact, that they are popping up in some trade rumors regarding the Edmonton Oilers. For the most part, Penguins’ goaltending prospects have continued to show why one of the veterans at the NHL level might be expendable.
Here is our November Penguins’ prospects update for goaltenders:
In an unexpected twist early in the season – and after a stellar training camp – Murashov got the chance to make his NHL debut much sooner than anticipated and have a small run of games at the NHL level before being re-assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (WBS) once Tristan Jarry was acitvated from injured reserve.
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During his NHL stint, he appeared in four games and posted a 1.90 goals-against average to go along with a .913 save percentage. There were a few blips along the way in that sample, but for the most part, he looked calm, cool, collected, and confident, which is impressive for a 21-year-old.
And he picked up right where he left off in his first start at the AHL level since his re-assignment. Against the Lehigh Valley Phantoms on Friday, Murashov stopped 31 of 32 shots and posted a .969 save percentage for the game. Through nine appearances at the AHL level collectively this season, he has a 6-2-0 record with one shutout, a 1.70 goals-against average, and a .934 save percentage.
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This guy has dominated every professional level he’s played at, and he flashed some of that dominance in NHL action, too. He goes post-to-post effortlessly, consistently challenges shooters, loves to play the puck, and is rarely out of position.
It won’t be long before he’s in Pittsburgh for good, and he has the tools to be a core piece of the Penguins’ future for many years to come.
Blomqvist, 23, missed the first month-plus of the season after sustaining a lower-body injury in training camp. He had a bit of a rough outing against the Hershey Bears on Saturday, as he was pulled after surrendering four goals on 16 shots.
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But, aside from that game, he’s been good so far. In four appearances this season, he is 3-1-1 with a shutout, a 2.19 goals-against average, and a .920 save percentage.
The young netminder from Uusikaarlepyy, Finland kind of does have a lot to prove this season, as he now has Murashov to compete with for an NHL spot. In addition, his mixed-bag NHL sample last season – he excelled in his first stint and struggled in his second – left a bit more to be desired in terms of looking ahead to the future.
At 23 years old, this is a big season for Blomqvist. He will compete for the net at the AHL level with Murashov, too, and ideally, they would become a future 1A and 1B situation for the NHL club. If he continues to build on the work he’s put in so far this season, it will make it a lot easier for the Penguins to be comfortable parting with one of their netminders at the NHL level.
Larsson, 27, started out the season strong for WBS when he was the backup to Murashov prior to the Russian goaltender’s NHL stint.
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However, his numbers have dipped a bit in recent games.
After posting a .941 save percentage through three appearances in the month of October, Larsson had a lowly .755 save percentage through the same amount of games in November. It was tough timing for him, too, because both Blomqvist and Murashov are now active at the AHL level, and it’s going to be hard for Larsson to see much playing time with both of them in the picture.
Perhaps a stint in Wheeling wouldn’t be the worst thing for Larsson right now, where he’d get more playing time and have a chance to find his game again. But, if he does remain on the AHL roster – and the WBS Penguins decide to have a three-goaltender rotation – he has to make the most of his opportunities, as they will probably be few and far between.
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As has been the case with D’Aigle, looking at his raw stat line doesn’t tell the whole story about the season he’s having for the Victoriaville Tigres of the QMJHL.
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D’Aigle was selected by the Penguins in the third round (84th overall) of the 2025 Draft, and – once again – Victoriaville isn’t exactly lighting up the ‘Q.’ He is getting peppered night-in and night-out, and he has logged more minutes than any other goaltender in the QMJHL.
So, given all of that, his .895 save percentage and 557 saves in 17 appearances doesn’t look so bad. D’Aigle is a work in progress and a bit of a project, but the tools are there. And the Penguins believe they might have something in the 6-foot-4, 19-year-old workhorse.
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At 30 years old, Smith can’t really be considered a prospect. He spent nine seasons in Europe before joining Wheeling this season.
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However, we will highlight him here because he’s putting up some pretty impressive numbers for the Wheeling Nailers (ECHL).
In eight appearances, Smith is 7-0-1 with a 1.72 goals-against average and a .943 save percentage. Earlier this month, he earned ECHL Goaltender of the Week honors for the week of Nov. 10-16.
Of course, it would take quite a lot of bad injury luck for Smith to get anywhere near the NHL. But the Oakville, Ontario native has been outstanding so far, and he might make things interesting in terms of the goaltending split when Taylor Gauthier returns from injury.
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After a shaky start to the season, the 23-year-old goaltender from Kazakhstan has settled in a bit.
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Through eight games, Pavlenko is 5-3-0 with a .906 save percentage and 2.75 goals-against average. His play for the Kazakhstan at the World Championship this year – he went 1-4 with an .881 save percentage and a 3.75 goals-against average against some very tough competition and behind a lackluster defense – earned him an AHL contract for the 2025-26 season.
Pavlenko may be a bit of an NHL longshot given the organization’s goaltending depth, but don’t count him out. The 6-foot-5, 205-pound goaltender has the size and the tools to continue refining his game and to make a case for himself as a potential option for the AHL club moving forward.
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It’s a new season, and Pittsburgh Penguins‘ prospects are off to a pretty good start this season.
GM/POHO Kyle Dubas has managed to infuse the Penguins’ organization with a lot of promising talent in the last two-plus years by acquiring prospects and accruing draft capital, and the Penguins’ enhanced development staff has also helped young players already in the organization begin to find potential paths to the NHL.
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In particular, the Penguins’ prospect pool at forward has drastically improved. And quite a few of them are off to scorching starts this season.
Here is our November Penguins’ prospects update for forwards:
Given how McGroarty has played for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (WBS) since his return to action, it shouldn’t be long before he sees action in Pittsburgh.
After missing all of training camp plus the first month and a half of the regular season, McGroarty has appeared in five games for WBS and registered four goals and seven points. He scored in four consecutive games upon his return.
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The NHL club is ailing, and McGroarty is putting the puck in the back of the net like clockwork. The Penguins have a return-to-play plan for him, and it makes sense that they don’t want to rush him back to the NHL for the sake of doing it.
But there comes a point when production, results, and need may outweigh whatever preconceived plan was in place. If McGroarty keeps this up for much longer – and the Penguins don’t get healthy very soon – he should be in Pittsburgh.
Hayes, 22, missed a few games due to injury this month, but he’s picked up right where he left off prior to his injury.
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In 15 games this season, Hayes has five goals and nine points – and three of his five goals have been game-winning goals. He seems to have that clutch gene, and it’s a great quality to have alongside the defensive awareness, versatility, and special teams ability he brings.
Hayes has already begun the first year of his two-year entry-level contract with the Penguins. He impressed in training camp and can play up and down a lineup.
Along with McGroarty, he’s another guy that should see NHL ice sooner rather than later this season.
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Broz, 22, made his NHL debut Nov. 26 against the Buffalo Sabres, and it was a debut well-earned because of his play at the AHL level this season.
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Prior to his call-up, Broz had eight goals and 13 points in 18 games, and his strong play on both sides of the puck stood out. Broz’s positional versatility – he can play center and wing effectively – as well as his high impact on both the power play and penalty kill are qualities that made the decision on a call-up easy for the Penguins.
Well, in addition to his production and ability to score goals, of course.
Broz was a healthy scratch for the back-to-back against the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Toronto Maple Leafs on Friday and Saturday. With a rough 7-2 loss against the Leafs, the Penguins next play the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday, and they sent Broz back to WBS with some assumed roster movement otherwise on the way.
But if he continues what he’s been doing at the AHL level this season, it won’t be long before Broz is back in Pittsburgh again.
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Calvert, 22, has cooled off considerably since his scorching start to the season. He has no points in the last six games and , unfortunately, does not make a huge degree of impact when he is not showing up on the scoresheet.
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Still, the undrafted forward is still one to watch this season, as he has been a pleasant surprises during his organizational tenure so far. He does tend to score in streaks and bunches, and he’s simply going through a cold stretch at the moment.
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In all honesty, we are running out of words to describe what Horcoff is doing for the University of Michigan Wolverines this season.
After two wins against Harvard this weekend – in which he registered four goals, including the overtime game-winner on Nov. 29 – Horcoff is up to 18 goals and 26 points in 18 games on the NCAA season, which means he now leads the NCAA in both goals and points.
The main knock on Horcoff coming out of the 2025 NHL Draft – when he was selected 24th overall – was that he needed to find the back of the net more often. Well, he’s done that and more, and it’s quite impressive for an 18-year-old who was the youngest player in the NCAA last season.
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The Penguins look like they could be getting a pretty special player here in Horcoff, and that 2025 first round is looking better and better, even with Bill Zonnon injured again and barely having played this season.
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Lucius – drafted by the Carolina Hurricanes in the fourth round (124th overall) of the 2022 NHL Draft and dealt to the Penguins in the Jake Guentzel trade – has put together a nice season for the Arizona State University Sun Devils so far.
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He has 10 goals and 20 points in 16 games on the season, including a goal and seven points in the last five games.
Lucius still has to refine some of the defensive details in his game, which has been a point of emphasis for him in his development. But his scoring touch gets better and better with each passing season, and he is on pace to surpass career-highs in both goals and points this season.
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While Horcoff leads the NCAA in goals and points, Plante leads the league in assists with 17.
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The Penguins’ 2022 fifth-round (150th overall) pick has seven goals and 24 points for the University of Minnesota – Duluth this season, and a lot of those assists have come on goals by his younger brother, Max, who has found the back of the net 13 times and is tied with Horcoff for the league lead in points.
The 21-year-old center from Mannheim, Germany continues to climb his way up the prospects rankings for the Penguins, and after his junior breakout season with the Fargo Force of the USHL in 2023-24 – he had 26 goals and 71 points in 57 games – he has continued to follow through on his development as a playmaker at the NCAA level.
Miller, 18, is on an absolute tear right now in the WHL. And it’s beginning to look like he was one of several steals in the later rounds of the 2025 draft class.
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One of three fifth-round draft picks (130th overall) by the Penguins this year, Miller has a WHL-best 19-game active point streak, which was extended Saturday with a two-goal, three-point effort for the Portland Winterhawks in a 7-2 win over the Swift Current Broncos. Overall, he has nine goals and 33 points in 26 games on the season.
The tenacious, net-driving forward has impressed early on this season, and he will be one to watch as the season progresses. If he can develop his offensive game even further, there is a chance that the Penguins could be getting yet another pretty decent two-way centerman in their system.
Charron – one of the other fifth-round picks (154th overall) by the Penguins this year – has cooled off considerably since his scorching start to the season that featured seven goals and 11 points in six OHL games for the Soo Greyhounds.
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Since then, Charron has just 11 goals and 15 points in 21 games, which – although still formidable on the goal-scoring front – isn’t quite the clip he was producing at before. Still, Charron’s scoring ability, size, and speed have allowed him to become more productive this season, as he’s following up on a 2024-25 campaign that included just 10 goals and 21 points in 48 games.
If the 6-foot-2, 198-pound Charron keeps playing to his strengths and learns to use his speed and size even more to his advantage, he could unlock an even higher level of production.
The 20-year-old Ilyin – who is playing out the first year of his three-year entry-level contract in the KHL for the Severstal Cherepovets – just seems to be getting better and better.
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Playing on Severstal’s top line this season, the youngster has increased his production quite a bit in comparison to last season, as his eight goals and 24 points in 32 games are far outpacing his previous career-high of 12 goals in 65 games during the 2023-24 season and 30 points in 64 games in 2024-25. He is also a plus-16 this season,
A smart, skilled playmaker, Ilyin continues to show off his craftiness and vision with Severstal, and at 27th overall in KHL scoring, there is only one player younger than him – 19-year-old Yegor Surin, who was drafted 22nd overall by the Nashville Predators in 2024 – within the top-75 in league scoring.
That should say something about Ilyin doing what he’s doing at his age in the KHL.
It’s probably safe to say that Fernstrom – a 19-year-old right wing acquired in the Marcus Pettersson trade last spring – has not had the start that him or the Penguins were hoping for.
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The 6-foot, 187-pound forward has just two goals and two points in 24 games for Orebro HK of the SHL this season. The third-round pick (93rd overall) of the Vancouver Canucks in 2024 earned SHL Rookie of the Year honors last season with eight goals and 17 points in 48 games – and he is pacing just four goals and four points in as many games this season.
The Penguins want Fernstrom to work on his skating, and the offense hasn’t been shining this season, either. The youngster still has some growth to accomplish if he hopes to see NHL ice at some point, but the good news is that he’s only 19 – and it’s hard for teenagers to score in the SHL.
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Heading into Saturday’s matchup against the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Pittsburgh Penguins had won two consecutive games and appeared to be crawling out of the November slump they found themselves in.
Unfortunately, all of that quickly went down the drain.
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The Penguins fell to the Leafs, 7-2, to secure their eighth loss in the last 11 games to Toronto. Although the score suggests otherwise, the Penguins actually didn’t play a terrible game in terms of generating chances and creating offensive opportunity.
Unfortunately, their goaltending and their defense completely let them down in this one.
Penguins’ goaltender Arturs Silovs was pulled after allowing four goals on nine Toronto shots, with the final dagger being Dakota Joshua’s second-period goal just two and a half minutes after Bobby McMann put the Leafs up, 3-1.
Oliver Ekman-Larsson opened the scoring just under seven minutes into the first period with his fourth of the season, and a minute and a half later, Penguins’ rookie Ben Kindel responded on the power play with his sixth goal of the season, batting a puck out of mid-air and knuckling it behind Toronto goaltender Dennis Hildeby to tie it. But Leafs’ rookie Easton Cowan seized the lead back on a wide-open one-timer from the right circle a few minutes later to make it 2-1.
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After Silovs was pulled in favor of Tristan Jarry during the second period with a 4-1 score, Nicolas Roy was left wide open in the slot during the power play, and the Leafs made it 5-1 in the back half of the middle frame.
The Penguins began to get some momentum back early in the third period, as Sidney Crosby scored his 16th of the season – and 641st of his career, putting him in sole possession of 15th on the NHL’s all-time goal-scoring list – at the net front to give the team some life.
Unfortunately, Auston Matthews responded with the Penguins pushing pretty hard less than three minutes later, and Nick Robertson added a seventh goal later in the period to seal, sign, and deliver the 7-2 win for the Leafs.
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Although goaltending was certainly a huge culprit in this game, the Penguins’ defensive zone play did them no favors. On several occasions, the Penguins either turned the puck over or left a man wide-open for an opportunity, and those mistakes piled up.
Parker Wotherspoon was a minus-3, Erik Karlsson was a minus-3, Ryan Graves was a minus-2, and Matt Dumba was on the ice for two goals against – including Robertson’s, in which a defensive zone turnover by him led directly to the goal.
And Joshua was left wide open in the slot on his goal because Kris Letang and Blake Lizotte lost track of him and allowed him to walk right in.
This is one of those nights where it probably wouldn’t have mattered how many goals the Penguins scored. The defensive mistakes were that glaring, and a team like the Leafs is going to capitalize on those mistakes – even as a struggling team – because they have so many dangerous players.
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“I think the quality of the chances we gave up were just too good,” Crosby said. “I thought we had the puck for a good chunk of it, but when we did have breakdowns, they were big ones and quality chances. So, we just got to tighten up.”
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Here are a few takeaways from this one:
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– What a rotten game from the Penguins’ defensive corps.
Team defense has been a bit of an issue all season long, but – for the most part – the top pairing of Wotherspoon and Karlsson has actually been pretty solid. That was not the case Saturday.
Karlsson was credited with four giveaways, Wotherspoon with one. Karlsson was on the ice for four goals against. For how great he has been for the vast majority of this season, he was not good in this game until it was too little, too late. He generated some on offense, but his poor defense outweighed his offensive contributions in this one.
Wotherspoon wasn’t good, either. He’s so defensively sound and so rarely out of position, and he was not sound and was out of position a whole lot Saturday.
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As far as the rest? Shea and Letang were the best pairing but were not good by a stretch, either. And Graves and Dumba were almost as rough as Karlsson and Wotherspoon.
There was breakdown after breakdown, and the Penguins just couldn’t stop the bleeding.
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– Speaking of that bottom pairing, boy, has it been a glaring issue for the Penguins this season.
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On the left side, Caleb Jones wasn’t playing particularly inspiring hockey before his injury. Graves – beyond his first couple of games – has not been good. Owen Pickering was a mess in a small sample. Dumba and Connor Clifton largely haven’t worked on that side.
And the right side has been a disaster, too. Between Dumba and Clifton, they’ve had tiny moments here and there where they’ve played well enough. But the bad has largely outweighed the good, and they don’t bring much other than physicality and – on Dumba’s part – the occasional offensive contribution. The youngster in Harrison Brunicke started off strong in his first few games but began to struggle in the games after, turning the puck over with frequency and lacking in net-front defense.
I’m not sure what the solution is for the bottom pairing, but they have to address it if they hope to make the playoffs. And I’m not so sure that deploying the 19-year-old Brunicke out there pretty regularly when he returns from his conditioning stint – barring what happens with World Juniors – could possibly be any worse than what they’re icing now.
At least with Brunicke, you know what you’re getting. You know this is a young player who is learning to adjust to NHL speed and NHL reads, and you expect mistakes.
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You can stomach those mistakes with a teenager finding his game at the NHL level. But you can’t stomach them with veterans.
After Wilkes-Barre/Scranton’s (WBS) slate next weekend, get Brunicke back up here. Get Jack St. Ivany back from his conditioning stint. Either option is preferable to what they have going now.
– I thought Kindel and Koivunen played a nice game together on the third line. Danton Heinen and Kevin Hayes rotated in and out of that other spot, but the two youngsters were generating a lot of chances and were able to get the cycle going on several occasions.
Koivunen is so close, and if he keeps playing the way he did Saturday, the production will come. And Kindel was much-improved over what we’ve been seeing from him lately.
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– Heinen and Joona Koppanen are simply not doing enough to justify remaining in the lineup on a consistent basis.
Koppanen is good on the penalty kill, but he doesn’t provide much outside of that. Heinen has largely been a passenger on every line he’s been on, and that hasn’t changed.
5 Things The Penguins Should Be Thankful For
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Tristan Broz was called up prior to Wednesday’s game, played, and then was a healthy scratch for the back-to-back this weekend. Quite frankly, I’m a bit baffled by that decision. One game is not nearly enough of a sample size for a player, and I don’t feel that Broz was egregiously bad enough in that game to warrant not being iced for the next two.
The Penguins need help scoring, and they need defensively responsible players. Broz can do both. He needs to play Monday against the Philadelphia Flyers.
– Another player who should be suiting up Monday is Rutger McGroarty, who has four goals and seven points in five games for WBS. He is an immediate upgrade over pretty much anyone the Penguins have been deploying on the left side of their forward unit for the last month.
I would love to see McGroarty, Kindel, and Koivunen play together. But he might not be the worst thing for Crosby right now, either.
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– Silovs was pulled for the second straight game. He was also yanked after allowing four goals to the Minnesota Wild on Nov. 21.
I’m not ready to pull the plug on him. Prior to that game against Minnesota, Silovs had been pretty outstanding to the point that he was appearing in early Calder Trophy polling. But he needs to right his ship quickly, especially knowing who is knocking at the door in WBS.
– I expect a much better effort Monday from the Penguins, even though the Flyers have given them fits as of late. They need to figure out a way to get ahead and get ahead early, And they have to keep their foot on the gas in the aftermath.
Let’s see how they respond.
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American Thanksgiving is upon us, and that means folks start talking benchmarks, playoffs, and trade deadline storylines around the NHL.
And with some kind of playoff picture coming into focus, the Pittsburgh Penguins sure have a lot to be thankful for this season.
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After a scorching 8-2-2 start to the season in the month of October, the Penguins are still in the East’s second wild card spot despite a tough 3-4-3 stretch in November. Regardless of where things go from here, the Penguins have exceeded many outside expectations, and there have been several contributing factors to their early-season success.
Here are five things the Penguins should be thankful for this season.
Goaltending has taken the Penguins places this season after being a glaring weakness in the last several seasons.
This year, Tristan Jarry, Arturs Silovs, and Sergei Murashov have combined for a .911 team save percentage, which is good for fourth in the NHL. The league’s average save percentage this season is .891.
And, let’s not forget Joel Blomqvist, who is off to a torrid start in the AHL after missing the first six weeks of the regular season with a lower-body injury. In three games, he has an impressive 1.34 goals-against average and an unreal .952 save percentage.
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The goaltending depth in this organization is very real, and the Penguins should certainly thank those guys for their early success.
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Another two people the Penguins should be grateful for are GM and POHO Kyle Dubas and VP of Player Personnel Wes Clark, who have managed to completely overturn the Penguins’ prospect pool and outlook on youth talent in a matter of two-plus years.
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But at the end of the day, the kids are the ones getting it done.
Murashov is advanced for a goaltender of his age at 21. Rutger McGroarty – who missed all of training camp and the first month and a half of action due to an upper-body injury – has three goals and five points in three games for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (WBS) and appears to have a long-term outlook in the organization. Teenagers Ben Kindel and Harrison Brunicke earned spots on the NHL roster out of training camp, and Kindel – drafted this year – has particularly impressed.
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Overall, the Penguins have iced nine rookies this season, which is the top mark in the NHL. All of a sudden, this isn’t really an old team anymore, even if their high-performing veterans skew the number otherwise.
And, hey, after 20 years of witnessing greatness in the Crosby era, the Penguins should be thankful that there is, potentially, some greatness on the horizon, too.
New head coach Dan Muse and his staff have gotten a lot out of a roster that a lot of folks doubted heading into the season.
Todd Nelson has elevated a good Penguins’ power play from last season to the best unit in the league, and his work with the forward unit has been spectacular. Mike Stothers has reformed the Penguins’ penalty kill to be a top-five unit and has endeared himself to a better-than-anticipated defense corps. Nick Bonino and “eye in the sky” Rich Clune have done a fantastic job with the group as well, especially as coaches with less experience than the others.
Then, there is Muse himself. The players love him and his energy. He knows how to develop players. He knows how to work with the vets. He knows when to give his team positive reinforcement and when to challenge them. He has taken a locker room with an air of staleness and helped revitalize it.
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The organization is surely grateful for this staff, and the team should be, too.
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Even if the Penguins have had a 3-4-3 skid in the month of November, they – thankfully – haven’t lost much ground at all. They are still in a playoff position, and they partially have the rest of the East to thank for that.
With no team truly pulling away, the Penguins are just four points out of both the divisional and the conference lead that’s held by the New Jersey Devils at 31. They have been challenged, injury-depleted, and not playing their best hockey as of late, yet they are still in the thick of things.
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That says a lot about both the Penguins as a team and about the rest of the East. It is worth noting that the Penguins are only five points out of the basement of the conference, too. But they’re getting healthier, and they were the best team in the East at near-full-health.
In a season seemingly of “meh” in the East, it’s the perfect time for the Penguins to take advantage of that. And they should be thankful that they’re getting back to full health so they have the opportunity to do just that.
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If there is one thing that tends to motivate anyone, it’s others casting doubt. It makes a person or a team want to prove those others wrong.
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And guess what? The naysayers spoke, and the Penguins have largely rejected narratives this season.
Three of their oldest players in Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, and Erik Karlsson are playing at a very high level to start the season, and they seem to have drowned out the noise. “Take a chance on me” players like Silovs, Justin Brazeau, Anthony Mantha, and Parker Wotherspoon have been three of the Penguins’ better players this season, too, despite limited hype surrounding those acquisitions.
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Even the Penguins’ own GM said at the conclusion of last season that the playoffs would be “an accomplishment” this season, and the team is defying those words so far.
If naysayers didn’t exist, the Penguins wouldn’t be able to defy everything they’ve been saying. A lot of publications – not this one, for the record – had the Penguins finishing bottom-five at best, and in a lot of cases, bottom-three.
A lot can still happen. That much is for certain. But be thankful that you get to watch these Penguins on a nightly basis because they’ve – simply put – been a fun team to watch this season.
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A year ago, if anyone suggested that Pittsburgh Penguins‘ goaltender Tristan Jarry had any real trade value, it was probably a stretch.
Now – according to a new report – it’s apparently becoming a reality.
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Per NHL insider Kevin Weekes, Jarry is drawing “significant interest” from the struggling Edmonton Oilers, who find themselves on the outside looking in at a crucial benchmark point of the season. They currently sit out of a playoff position at the Thanksgiving break, and goaltending has been a huge reason why.
Edmonton ranks 31st in team goaltending at the 25-game mark of the season with a combined .868 save percentage, so it’s safe to say that the position is largely costing them a playoff spot right now, even if it’s not their sole issue.
Stuart Skinner – who has appeared in 18 of the 25 games – is 8-7-3 with a 3.18 goals-against average and an .878 save percentage, while Calvin Pickard is 2-3-2 with a 4.04 goals-against average and .847 save percentage across nine appearances this season.
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Meanwhile, Jarry – who is a former Edmonton Oil King – is part of a goaltending tandem that is third in team goaltending, and he is winning the Penguins a lot of hockey games. Jarry, 30, is 6-2-0 with a shutout, 2.53 goals-against average, and .914 save percentage this season, which is just a tick above his career save percentage of .910. It has been a good bounceback campaign for Jarry, who struggled last season and found himself on waivers at one point.
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Even if Jarry has been the team’s most consistent goaltender in the earlygoing, the Penguins have so much goaltending depth in their organization that trading the 30-year-old Jarry – who is in the third year of a five-year contract that pays him $5.375 million annually – may not actually hurt them all that much, even as they push for a playoff spot in the immediacy.
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Arturs Silovs – acquired from the Vancouver Canucks this summer – has a 2.74 goals-against average and a .907 save percentage this season through 11 appearances, and the promising Murashov had a 1.90 goals-against average and a .913 save percentage with a shutout through four NHL appearances before being re-assigned to the AHL Wednesday to make room for Jarry returning from injured reserve. He has also dominated the AHL so far this season through seven games with a 1.73 goals-against average and a .931 save percentage.
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But the positional depth doesn’t stop there for the Penguins. Joel Blomqvist has looked unreal in his first three AHL appearances of the season for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (WBS) after sustaining a lower-body injury during training camp, as the 23-year-old has put up a whopping 1.34 goals-against average and .952 save percentage. Filip Larsson also provides some depth at the position, even if he has struggled to start the AHL season with an .870 goals-against average through six appearances. He proved capable for WBS last season in a much larger sample.
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Only time will tell if Weekes’s report has any real traction, but if Jarry keeps putting up numbers, they won’t be the only team vying for his services. And with the Penguins finding themselves in a playoff race in what was supposed to be a rebuilding year by most measures, they may have some tough decisions to make regarding their goaltending situation as the season progresses.
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Pittsburgh Penguins‘ top prospect Rutger McGroarty can’t stop scoring goals for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (WBS) Penguins.
In Wednesday’s tilt against the Hershey Bears – AHL affiliate of the Washington Capitals – McGroarty registered his third goal in as many AHL games this season, continuing his seamless, dominant transition back to game action.
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And none of McGroarty’s three goals have been cheap ones, either.
The 21-year-old forward – acquired in the summer of 2024 from the Winnipeg Jets – missed all of training camp and the first month and a half of the regular season due to an upper-body injury. He made his return to the AHL lineup on Nov. 15 against the Springfield Thunderbirds, powering his way to the net on his first shift of the second period for his first of the season.
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Then, in Saturday’s 1-0 WBS win over the Providence Bruins, McGroarty scored the lone goal shorthanded – going end-to-end, weaving around a few defenders, and earning himself a breakway opportunity that he put home.
And that brings us to Wednesday’s game. In this one, McGroarty gained the offensive zone, got to a loose puck above the right circle courtesy of a little help from Philip Tomasino, and sniped one past Bears’ goaltender Garin Bjorklund to put his team up, 2-0.
The Penguins and GM/POHO Kyle Dubas have reiterated that because McGroarty is an important piece for their future, they need to do what’s right for his development and follow a return-to-play plan for him. He had a planned scratch for last Friday’s game and played the next day against Providence.
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But, if McGroarty continues to dominate at the AHL level and show he is ready – he has four points in three games – it’s possible that the the NHL club may see him sooner than initially anticipated.
Penguins Activate Two Players From IR, Option Murashov To AHL
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/pittsburgh-penguins/latest-news/penguins-activate-two-players-from-ir-option-murashov-to-ahl" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:Penguins Activate Two Players From IR, Option Murashov To AHL Ahead of their Thanksgiving Eve tilt against the Buffalo Sabres, the Pittsburgh Penguins made a few roster moves that signify they’re surely but slowly getting healthier. ;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “> Penguins Activate Two Players From IR, Option Murashov To AHL Ahead of their Thanksgiving Eve tilt against the Buffalo Sabres, the Pittsburgh Penguins made a few roster moves that signify they’re surely but slowly getting healthier.
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