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Kovacevic: How persistent Penguins can make next climb

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Matt Cullen, Mark Streit and Scott Wilson pursue a puck at practice Friday. - CHRIS ORBAN / DKPS

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- "One more! Hard!"

So they did it twice more. And harder.

It's easy to tell when Mike Sullivan knows he's onto something. Because he pounces on it, parades it all over the place, then speaks like a proud papa once it's come to fruition.

In this case, Friday morning at the Lemieux Sports Complex, Justin Schultz and Ian Cole failed to connect on a routine D-to-D pass at the defending blue line. It was just a five-on-five drill. No big deal. The puck caromed off the left boards, popped into open ice, and no one really pursued it.

Sullivan pounced.

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