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Penguins Playoff Math, Deadline Moves & the Malkin Question

·1 hr 15 min·3 clips

This is episode 51, recorded live on Monday, March 2nd, in the afternoon. Dan opens by saying he has no guest because the couple of people he wanted were tied up on Monday, and that the point is for him and the audience to have a conversation. He also jokes about his hair and the fact that he barely dressed the part. The show is built around three main topics, though the episode mostly stays with the Malkin future discussion. He starts from the game before moving into the bigger question. The locker-room sequence matters because he says he approached Evgeny Malkin with the future question already in mind. Dan says the TV people noticed and rushed over. He is irritated by the crowding, but the point is not the irritation itself; it is that the small exclusive moment disappears once everybody sees it. He says there is nothing wrong with everyone doing that, but he wishes they had gone somewhere else. The reported line from Malkin is simple: he does not know what is happening with his future. His agent, according to Dan, says to wait until after the season. Dan reminds listeners that he had reported last summer, from inside sources, that the sides had planned to regroup at the Olympic break. That did not happen in any real constructive and earnest way. He then says sources are now telling him Kyle Dubas planned to meet with Malkin early next week, likely Tuesday or Wednesday. He pauses for a commercial break right before he can finish the story. The back half of the episode drifts a little, but in the way a hockey conversation does when the host is thinking aloud. He tells a bus story about a man collecting cans who looked at the bus driver, cursed the Eagles, and hopped off at the next stop. Dan likes the priorities in that tiny scene and uses it as a goofy palate cleanser before wrapping up. He closes by thanking the people in the comments and promising to save more of the chat for the Wednesday live stream.

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A live Penguins update that leans on Dan Kengurski's locker-room reporting and the uncertainty around Evgeny Malkin.

This Penguins check-in stays strongest when it sticks close to the live moment. Dan Kengurski comes through as an on-air reporter who is thinking out loud, following the sudden crowd around Evgeny Malkin and passing along the source chatter without pretending there is more…

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Play this when you want a live Penguins conversation that gets right to the Malkin future talk.

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