SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Pittsburgh Penguins were good enough to win Wednesday night (or Thursday morning back home), but needed a sterling performance from rookie Sergei Murashov to get there via a shootout over the San Jose Sharks. We also finished our Penguins Q&A and made it the Trade Talk edition. We’ve got full coverage from San Jose.

Elsewhere in the Daily, there’s anger in Toronto, and William Nylander is becoming a target for the fans AND coach Jim Hiller. The Philadelphia Flyers and Matvei Michkov spoke up and addressed the friction. The Chicago Blackhawks are shopping for wingers, and the Edmonton Oilers’ goalies are starting to shine.

I slept in until 5 a.m. PST. Sorry the Daily is late. So, let’s get to it.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Pittsburgh Hockey Meow: If you dozed off before the end, here is our new recap and goal breakdown of the Penguins’ win.

The analysis and tactical breakdown were quite mixed. The Penguins won, and they earned it, but they also continue to stubbornly deny their best game. We graded a couple of young players well, but Sergei Murashov was the best player on the ice. It’s all in the Penguins’ report card.

San Jose Hockey Now: Here’s the flip side of the game. Sheng Peng rolled through the Sharks locker room and had some conversations with Macklin Celebrini and Ivar Stenberg. We got the skinny on that near fight with Kaedan Korczak and Stenberg hitting a few posts in the Sharks SO loss.

The puck just follows Stenberg. He is really … REALLY going to be something special.

After the first several questions were about trades and trade angles, well, I just steered into the skid with the latest Penguins Q&A.

NHL Trade Talk, News, & NHN

Philly Hockey Now: Matvei Michkov has created more headlines in Philly than Josh Shapiro. After Kevin Weekes dropped a bombshell on Flyers nation that Michkov would probably like a fresh start, all sides had to answer for it Wednesday. Michkov had to answer for the report and for his shouting match on the ice with Nick Seeler, and then GM Daniel Briere had to address the trade possibility. Here’s everything. It was a wild day for the Philly Flyers.

NHLtraderumors.me: It seems Toronto isn’t a happy place, at least as it comes to hockey these days. A primary target of the anger from the coach and fans is William Nylander, and it seems he’s hearing trade rumors about himself, even when no one else is hearing them.

ESPN: An update on Nick Cousins, who was knocked cold by the hit from Jakob Chychrun Tuesday night. It was the most violent hit in the NHL in a decade or more.

The last time I saw a hit like that, I think, was Matt Cooke catching David Savard in 2010. Cooke’s hit would be wildly illegal now, but it wasn’t so much then. Chychrun’s hit was legal, and I guess it speaks to the changing game that we’re all in a bit of shock over it.

TSN Insiders: The Chicago Blackhawks are in the trade market looking to add. The NHL expected Russia to be in the World Cup of Hockey, but other countries are saying nyet.

Sportsnet: Goaltending stability in Edmonton? Tristan Jarry follows a stellar performance by Devon Levi with one of his own? Things are looking good for the Edmonton Oilers, even if Connor McDavid didn’t score three points last night.