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Skate report: Beating Jets would make for quite the flight home

WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- A shutout in Montreal, a shutout in Toronto, and now, on the Penguins' third and final stop of this Canadian trip ... hey, how about whatever it takes to ensure an exceptionally satisfying YWG-PIT charter flight home?

"Oh, yeah, it'd feel great," Marcus Pettersson replied to my question on that subject Monday at Canada Life Centre after the morning skate in advance of the meeting tonight -- 8:38 p.m. Eastern time faceoff -- with the 9-4-4 Jets. "We're coming off two defensively solid games against two dynamic teams, and this opponent's gonna be no different.