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After scratching out a workmanlike win against the Anaheim Ducks and absolutely crushing the Minnesota Wild and Winnipeg Jets the Penguins put together what was without a doubt their best performance of the season when they topped the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday night.

It was impressive in every way.

Not only the way they played, almost completely shutting down the league’s best scoring line of Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen, and Gabriel Landeskog (by their standards the Penguins shut them down), but because they did it with an undermanned lineup whose forward lines were pieced together through call-ups and the team’s ninth defenseman.