Penguins

Kovacevic: Blink and you’ll miss Eastern final

This shouldn't take long.

And I'm not just talking about the Penguins' Eastern Conference final matchup with the Lightning, which faces off at 8:10 p.m. Friday at Consol Energy Center.

I'm talking about this column.

See, in picking the Penguins in five over the Rangers, then in six over the Capitals, all without the assistance of an envelope to the temple, there was this gnawing urge to discuss and dissect every single facet of those series before the first puck dropped. Both were difficult reads, albeit for very different reasons.

This series?

Well, let's just say I'd set out to offer three keys to the Penguins prevailing, and I wound up with just one:

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