DK’s Daily Shot of Penguins: Arturs Silovs, starter?

DK’s Daily Shot of Penguins: Arturs Silovs, starter?

Archer Seavs is coming off a dream season. Really, it’s just that it wasn’t at this level. Morning to you. Good Thursday morning. I’m Dan Kaju of DK Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily Shot of Penguins. It comes your way bright and early every weekday. If you’re into football and/or baseball, I also offer daily shots of Steelers and Pirates in the same place you found this. Hope you’ll check those out as well. Blue Jackets 4 Penguins won last night in Columbus, Ohio. I feel like I had a ton to say about the game in Montreal the other night. I feel like I’m going to have a whole lot less to say about this one. It was a a stinker really. And I don’t even mean that from the standpoint of the visitors performance. I don’t think they were bad. The lineup disparity is just kind of what makes these things silly, these preseason games. And I feel exactly the same way when it happens in Pittsburgh. The Penguins dress all their guys and the other team shows up with a bunch of no names wearing really high numbers. But Seov’s got the start. He’d go half the game and he’d stop 12 of 14 shots. And within that, I could see what it is that had Celov’s being as successful as he was in the AHL this past season. He wasn’t just the starting goalender of the eventual Calder Cup champions in Abbertsford to British Columbia. He ended up being named the league’s playoff MVP. That’s winning it all. That’s a clean sweep. He had a 2.01 goals against, 935 save percentage, five shutouts. This is just the playoffs I’m talking about. But but at the NHL level in Vancouver, he’d have a 3.65 goals against and an 861 save percentage. a decent amount of which was the result of a really bad game he had right here in Pittsburgh. So that unfair as it’ll come across is my perception of him. I remember him being in the crease right below my spot in the press box and watching him not stop a thing. Let’s further remember that Vancouver management led of course by Jim Rutherford, Patrick Alvine, looked at their own glut of goalenders and this was the one they traded to Kyle Dubis. So to say that this young man has plenty to prove is an understatement. That said, he is a young man. He’s 24 years old. He’s barely been in the NHL and he does have plainly visible size and skill for the position and you could see that. You could see that in this game. You could see that he made saves that might require some spectacular splits or superior athleticism by somebody else and he was just kind of gobbling them up. He was pretty good at covering his rebounds. He was pretty good at playing the puck and he would have had a pretty good night I think except for well of the two goals the one I didn’t like was from Columbus’s Jiego Chinov. Chinoikov is a a little bit of an enigma. He’s got a lot of skill, a lot of speed and he’s got a really really good shot. But when you’re letting it go as a wrist from above the left dot and it’s 100% unscreened, I don’t care that it registered 87 m an hour, which is actually really good for a wrist cuz it beat him to the far pipe. The other goal came from Jay Christensen, Columbus defenseman, who just flicked it from the right point past a couple of bodies. It wasn’t an overwhelming swarm of humans. There were two people, one of them wearing white, one of them wearing blue, and the puck just found its way through everybody. I’m not making excuses for Sheilovs on this, but he’s got to find a way to see through or see around what’s in front of him. That’s just goalending in 2025. Taylor Hos, our beat writer, DK Pittsburgh Sports, was in Columbus, and she asked she loves how he felt he did. I felt great. You know, they had a lot of power plays. you know, it’s like once in a while it’s going to get in and I think like we did a great job in PJ like a lot of great leads for from our guys, a lot of walks and I think that’s like important to build on and yeah. Yeah, the power plays were ridiculous. I mean, he’s he’s right about that. Seemed like the Penguins spent nearly half of the game short-handed or even two men down. And while that’s nice for practicing your penalty killing and nice for evaluating your goalending, to repeat something I said earlier, it it makes for a dud of an event. She Loves, of course, is one of the four goalenders in what Dubis has said is an open competition. He has also said at least once this summer that he fully expects she loves to get a good look in the crease after the kind of season that he had in the AHL. So that to me sounds like he’s got an edge. On top of that, Sergey Morishov really has to go to the AHL. He needs to have his Sheilov’s time. And now Yoel Blumquist popped up with a day-to-day injury yesterday. So, all things being relative, I don’t know how much of a competition this competition will be. I do hope that it’s a competition based on performances that are a lot more compelling than this one in Columbus last night. When we come back, J1Q. Hey guys, if you’re planning to see a concert or a Penguins game once the NHL season starts, use the Game Time app to get your tickets. You can snag new ticket deals before anyone if you set it into app alerts. The app is easy to use. No surprise fees at checkout. You can see your seat view before buying. And you’re getting legit tickets delivered on time. If you’re not much of a planner, you can get lastminute deals on tickets right up to the start of an event. Lowest price guaranteed or Game Time will credit you 110% of the difference. Download the Game Time app and enter the code DK Penguins in your app profile for $20 off your first purchase. Today’s J1Q comes from Mike, who asks, “DK, are the players being receptive to Dan Muse?” I’m going to take time to give you the answer that you’d probably hope to hear, Mike. And I don’t even say that in the standard preseason games don’t count and whatever thing. I mean that what you need to experience first is adversity. Even if let’s just say hypothetically that the Penguins were to get off to this surprisingly strong start. Just throwing that out there. But five points out of six in the first three games before they head out to the West Coast. you’re going to say, “Oh, yeah, look at them and Dan Muse and everything else here.” And it’s not going to mean much. Anybody in professional sports will tell you that you don’t find out something like that until stuff goes wrong. How does he handle negativity? How do his players handle how he handles negativity? How does he help the players handle negativity? And so far, if you’ve noticed in checking out any of the various interviews and videos that we’ve had with Muse on our app, you’ll see almost entirely a man who’s smiling. You’ll hear almost exclusively happy stuff. There’s a whole bunch of reasons for that and they’re all legit. I’m not criticizing him in any way for this. First time he’s a head coach. It’s great. You want that guy to look around and say, “Yeah, I’ve made it.” That shows his energy. That shows his passion. But you go out to California and get swept and have a really long flight in both directions, come back worried how the fans will react. Totally different scenario. How have the players reacted to date? Which I’m sure is what you’ve actually asked as opposed to where I steered it there. So far, for what it’s worth, they’ve reacted very positively. I am not including the young players. They have no choice but to react positively. I’m talking about the veterans with whom I’ve spoken. They will get specific in pointing out certain things that he’s done and they’ll do it in a way that’s still respectful to Mike Sullivan and everything that he achieved here and who Sullivan is, but they’ll also make it clear that they like this way better again for now. They like the competitive practices. They like the tempo. They like hearing his voice. Sullivan would stay really quiet in practice. He would even allow his skills coach, Ty Hennis, to run some of those practices and a lot of those drills. Muse is everywhere. He’s bouncing all over the rink. He’s booming his voice off of that low roof in Cranberry. Other coaches are involved, too, but Muse has been very handson, very much heard. That’s been good by the veterans, a lot of whom had quietly not been happy with a lot of other players supporting cast types not necessarily delivering on the energy that they need to deliver on a nightly basis. You know, that stuff I’m always talking about, the lines that would just go out there and kill time until Sid’s next shift. I don’t get the impression that this coach is going to do that or tolerate that or accept that. I don’t think Sullivan loved it either. But what Sullivan loved was his dudes and he had his dudes on the third and fourth lines. So if Noel Achari or Matt Needo or whoever goes out there and just skates in a handful of circles on a given night, that’s okay because Achari is going to have a big blocked shot twice a month. This has to be about delivering. There’s that term again, shift in and shift out. And I will say that through two preseason games, you have seen that trait by and large from this team. Not from everybody, but from most everybody. I appreciate the question, Michael. I appreciate everybody listening to Daily Shot of Penguins. Going to do another one of these tomorrow.

Arturs Silovs doesn’t exactly dominate preseason debut.

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