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Ron Cook: Healthy players, additions makes Penguins team to beat

I thought of Norman Dale’s famous line from “Hoosiers,” the second-greatest sports movie of all time, when the Penguins took the PPG Paints Arena ice Friday night to play the Tampa Bay Lightning.

“My team is on the floor.”

What we saw from the Penguins in a 5-2 win gave us a pretty good glimpse of what we’ll see the rest of the season. The team should get back four key pieces from injury, including defensemen Kris Letang, Olli Maatta and Trevor Daley, before the playoffs. But there is no more help coming from the outside. The two key additions from before the trade deadline this week — defensemen Ron Hainsey and Mark Streit— made their arena debuts, although Hainsey did play in the stadium series game a week ago against the Philadelphia Flyers.