Yeah, hockey season's over in Pittsburgh and it's over too soon.

And there aren't good things to say about that.

There just aren't.

But I gotta tell you, there was one light shining through these past few weeks

beyond what anyone could have or should have reasonably expected. Good morning to you. Good

Friday morning. I'm Dan Kovachiev of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily Shot of Penguins. It

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pirates in the same place that you found this. Penguins five capitals two meaningless.

Finale last night at PPG paints arena. at all an atmosphere to match though sellout crowd

18,348 sid pumps a goal Alexander Ovechkin pumps a goal the crowd gives Ovechkin a

rousing standing ovation.

He stands at Center Ice, waving to everybody and applauding back.

And yeah, there was a lot going on.

And as well as the team overall finished in the past month and change,

there's still one thing, one slice of that. I found

most encouraging. And that, plain and simple, was the performance, the instant performance

of Ville Coivinen. Let me tell you something. It's been a while since anyone

popped up around here and said, I am top six material. I'm going to play in your top six. And oh,

by the way, you're not going to be able to get me out of that top six for a long, long time.

But that's what Cooyvind's done.

He's done it at age 22.

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