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Kovacevic: All that confidence, camaraderie … it’s only grown stronger

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Phil Kessel and Tom Kuhnhackl playfully ride into the boards Tuesday at practice. - MATT SUNDAY / DKPS

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Justin Schultz and Ian Cole, defense partners for more than a year, stall-mates for most of that span, sat together after the Penguins' practice Tuesday afternoon. Still stuck in their pads. Still seemingly soaking up the rather intensive session that had just taken place.

Not to mention the season that's about to switch gears.

"This group," Schultz would tell me, "we've been through a lot together, you know?"

Yep. We've all witnessed it. The good, the bad and the all-bandaged-up.

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