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No Homework for Johnny is the second part of 43th episode and the 86th episode over all.

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Susan and Mary build Johnny a robot in order to help him do all his homework, but the robot ends up stealing things for Johnny.

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• Johnny Test
• Mr. Teacherman
• This is currently the only appearance of Homework Buddy and marks the debut of Mrs. Majekowski .
• Lila is revealed to know how to sew, and teaches the girls how to do so.
• Johnny reveals the girls have a pickup truck.

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Johnny Test is a Canadian/American animated television series. It premiered on Kids' WB, on The WB Television Network, on September 17, 2005. The series currently airs in the United States on Cartoon Network, as of January 7, 2008, and in Canada on Teletoon, as of October 28, 2006. The show was produced by Cookie Jar Entertainment for its second and later seasons. The series is rated TV-Y7 for the first four seasons, and TV-Y7-FV for the fifth. Johnny Test started its fourth season on September 10, 2009, containing 26 full episodes. It was the first season to premiere on Teletoon first. This is the first season to be produced in high definition. This season began airing on Cartoon Network on November 9, 2009. This would be the final season for Louis Chirillo and Ashleigh Ball as the voices of Dukey, Mary Test, and Sissy Blakely, although Ball returns later to resume her roles in Season 6. This season, along with the third season, was released on DVD in a bundle on September 13, 2011 in Region 1.

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S4 e1 - johnny's new baby sisters, s4 e2 - porta johnny, s4 e3 - join the johnny scouts, s4 e4 - johnny bc, s4 e5 - runaway johnny, s4 e6 - johnny on the spot, s4 e7 - dark johnny, s4 e8 - no homework for johnny, s4 e9 - papa johnny, s4 e10 - the johnnyminster dog show, s4 e11 - dukey jekyll and johnny hyde, s4 e12 - johnny's trophy case, s4 e13 - johnny's amazing cookie company, s4 e14 - johnny's big dumb sisters, s4 e15 - my johnny guard, s4 e16 - tom and johnny, s4 e17 - the quantum of johnny, s4 e18 - johnny get yer gum, s4 e19 - old school johnny, s4 e20 - johnny degrees below zero, where does johnny test rank today the justwatch daily streaming charts are calculated by user activity within the last 24 hours. this includes clicking on a streaming offer, adding a title to a watchlist, and marking a title as 'seen'. this includes data from ~1.3 million movie & tv show fans per day..

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Johnny Test - "Dark Johnny/No Homework Johnny" - Talkback [11/19]

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• Start date Nov 19, 2009

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I'm sweating.

• Nov 19, 2009

Johnny joins forces with Dark Vegan to get him back to his home planet/Susan and Mary bulid Johnny a robot in order to help him do his homework, but the robot ends up stealing things for Johnny. Click to expand...

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Es solo una forma de decir..

Wat the heck?!  

12 - 6 cloud?

I have a feeling "Dark Johnny" will become very popular amongst YTP creators soon..  

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• Nov 20, 2009

As prepared as I was to hate "Dark Johnny" (since it was a follow-up to "JX5", one of my least favorite episodes), I found it silly and entertaining. It was funny to see how Dark Vegan is unable to hold down a job due to his supervillain tendencies, and any opportunity to see Jillian again is welcome for me. Also, this is minor, but I appreciated how the writers remembered that Dark Vegan has a wife and Jillian has a mother; given how TV moms typically get the short end of the stick in fiction, I figured after her non-appearance in "Join the Johnny Scouts"" the writers must've Chuck Cunningham'ed her ( Happy Days reference), but thankfully Mrs. Vegan appeared again and she even had lines. At the end, I shared Johnny's outrage when after all they went through to get Vegan and his family home, he comes back because he can't have toast on his home planet. What the what?? I was suddenly reminded of Lex Luthor's speech to Gorilla Grodd at the end of "Dead Reckoning", when it turned that Grodd's "master plan" was to turn all of humanity into apes. As for "No Homework for Johnny", it was OK. It was nice to see the Tests involved in a group activity as a family, since that doesn't seem to happen too often, and I also enjoyed Lila's attempting to bond with her daughters (which also strangely enough doesn't happen much on the show), and Dukey's Rube Goldberg's devices to torment the neighbor's cats. For some reason the Homework Buddy robot reminded me of H.A.R.M. from Wild C.A.T.s .  

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I was happy that they continued on the episode from JX5 (one of my favorite episodes). It was funny about Dark Vegan's love for toast, he sure does love it. And I was surprised he came back to stay because he wanted more toast. And in No Homework for Johnny, I liked how the whole Test family was finally together doing something other than having a vacation. And the sisters made a very dangerous robot (because of the battery) and Johnny goes ahead being his own self with whatever he wants.  

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• Nov 21, 2009

Silverstar said: As prepared as I was to hate "Dark Johnny" (since it was a follow-up to "JX5", one of my least favorite episodes), I found it silly and entertaining. It was funny to see how Dark Vegan is unable to hold down a job due to his supervillain tendencies, and any opportunity to see Jillian again is welcome for me. Also, this is minor, but I appreciated how the writers remembered that Dark Vegan has a wife and Jillian has a mother; given how TV moms typically get the short end of the stick in fiction, I figured after her non-appearance in "Join the Johnny Scouts"" the writers must've Chuck Cunningham'ed her ( Happy Days reference), but thankfully Mrs. Vegan appeared again and she even had lines. Click to expand...

This season is starting to make me appreciate the flash animation (guess cause its being done by a different studio) both episodes were great. Loved Dark Veagen's earth jobs. Johnny is as tricky as ever  

Rho said: I have a feeling "Dark Johnny" will become very popular amongst YTP creators soon.. Click to expand...

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Johnny Test

Johnny Test is an animated television series about the adventures of the eponymous Johnny Test, an 11-year-old boy.

• 1.1 Johnny to the Center of the Earth/Johnny X
• 1.2 Johnny vs. Bling-Bling Boy/Johnny Impossible
• 1.3 Johnny Test: Party Monster/Johnny Test: Extreme Crime Stopper
• 1.4 Deep Sea Johnny/Johnny & the Amazing Turbo Action Backpack
• 2.1 JTV/Johnny Vs Bling-Bling 2
• 2.2 Johnny Test in Black & White/Johnny The Kid
• 3.1 Johnny vs. Bling Bling 3/Stinkin' Johnny
• 3.2 Johnny X and the Attack of the Snowman/Johnny vs. Dukey
• 3.3 Johnny'mon/Bathtime for Johnny
• 3.4 Johnny Fu/Johnny Escape from Bling Bling Island
• 4.1 Johnny's New Baby Sisters/Porta Johnny
• 4.2 Runaway Johnny/Johnny on the Spot
• 4.3 Papa Johnny/The Johnnyminster Dog Show
• 4.4 Dark Johnny/No Homework for Johnny
• 4.5 Princess Johnny/99 Deeds of Johnny Test
• 4.6 Guess Who's Coming to Johnny's for Dinner/Johnny's New BFF
• 4.7 Johnny vs. Bling Bling IV/Johnny's Big Sisters' Smackdown
• 4.8 King Johnny/Johnny Re-Animated
• 4.9 Good Ol' Johnny Test/Johnny X Strikes Back Again!
• 5.1 Fangs a Lot Johnny/Johnny Testosterone
• 5.2 Johnny Two Face/Johnny Susan, Susan Johnny
• 5.3 My Dinner with Johnny/Johnny Alternative
• 6.1 Johnny Vets Dukey/Johnny's #1 Fan
• 6.2 How to Train Your Johnny/Johnny and Clyde
• 6.3 Johnny's Supreme Theme/Past and Present Johnny
• 6.4 Johnny's Head in the Clouds/Stop in the Name of Johnny
• 6.5 Dial J for Johnny/Road Trip Johnny
• 6.6 Code Crackin' Johnny/Johnny Goes Viral
• 6.7 The Last Flight of Johnny X/Johnny's Last Chapter
• 8 External links

Season 1 [ edit ]

Johnny to the center of the earth/johnny x [ edit ], johnny vs. bling-bling boy/johnny impossible [ edit ], johnny test: party monster/johnny test: extreme crime stopper [ edit ], deep sea johnny/johnny & the amazing turbo action backpack [ edit ], season 2 [ edit ], jtv/johnny vs bling-bling 2 [ edit ], johnny test in black & white/johnny the kid [ edit ], season 3 [ edit ], johnny vs. bling bling 3/stinkin' johnny [ edit ], johnny x and the attack of the snowman/johnny vs. dukey [ edit ], johnny'mon/bathtime for johnny [ edit ], johnny fu/johnny escape from bling bling island [ edit ], season 4 [ edit ], johnny's new baby sisters/porta johnny [ edit ], runaway johnny/johnny on the spot [ edit ], papa johnny/the johnnyminster dog show [ edit ].

[Lila is shocked]

[Susan & Mary swap Hugh and Johnny's brains.]

[Explosion occurs and burned cupcakes fall on the lawn]

Dark Johnny/No Homework for Johnny [ edit ]

Once there, they landed on Vegandon and met Dark Vegan, the leader of a clan who ate only vegetables. But soon, Johnny discovered Vegandon's secret, that they live in paradise because they suck all the resources of other planets, eventually destroying them. So with the Earth under attack, Johnny, with the help of Dark Vegan's redonious daughter, Jillian, Stop the invasion and restore all the water and trees to Earth. And now, without an army or a ship, Dark Vegan is stranded on Earth and totally hates Johnny.

[Jillian turns up the volume on the ipod radio. Johnny and Dukey dance to the beat. Jillian looks at the audience, shrugs, then decides to join in with Johnny and Dukey. Dark Vegan comes into the living room.]

[Runs to his car and goes to work]

[Cuts to a restaurant. Text shows: Job #3: Dark Waiter.]

[Dark Vegan Pulls out his lightsaber.]

[Cuts to the Vallet Parking. Text shows: Job #17: Dark Vallet. A red car skids to a stop.]

[Throws the car keys at Dark Vegan's face. Dark Vegan crushes the car keys and lifts the red car with the force and places it with the other destroyed cars. The cool guy is shocked at what he saw. Dark Vegan puts a ticket in the cool guy's suit/shirt. Cut to the Dount Shop. Text shows; Job #32: Dark Dount.]

[Dark Vegan presses the $ button several times while groaning in anger. Dark Vegan lifts the lady using the force, causing her to drop the coins in the process.]

[Everyone runs out of the Donut Shop, screaming. The manager looks at Dark Vegan, unhappily]

[Cuts to Dark Vegan's house. Johnny, Dukey and Jillian are watching T.V.]

[Cuts to Johnny's room. Johnny and Dukey are sleeping. Dark Vegan tries to sabotage their beauty sleep, but Dukey bites Dark Vegan's leg. Dark Vegan then makes a hole on the wall with his lightsaber and falls.]

[Dukey yawns and goes back to sleep. The next day, Johnny and Dukey are skateboarding in the streets. Dark Vegan tries to sabotage their fun by lifting the sewage lid using the force, but a car hits him. Johnny and Dukey skateboard by. Cut to Dukey impersonating animals. First, a penguin.]

[Cuts to Johnny's house. Johnny, Dukey and Jillian are playing video games.]

[Dark Vegan opens the door.]

[Cuts to the kitchen. Dark Vegan takes a slice of toast.]

[Dark Vegan puts Johnny down.]

[Dark Vegan walks away. Dark Vegan takes two more slices of toast. Cuts to the Used Cars Shop.]

[The manager looks at Dark Vegan, unhappily]

[The manager points to the right, telling him to go away. Dark Vegan, depressed, walks away. Cuts to Johnny's house. Johnny, Dukey and Jillian are playing video games again.]

[Cut to Susan & Mary's laboratory. Susan & Mary are having a tea party with tea and triangle sandwiches.]

[Mary pulls the lever that sends Johnny, Dukey, and Dark Vegan to the pool.]

[Cuts to the kitchen.]

[Cut to Susan & Mary's laboratory. Susan presses the button that opens the door]

[Johnny, Dukey, and Dark Vegan run for the spaceship, but when they get close, Mary pushes down the lever that sends them back to the pool.]

[Johnny spits the water. Cut to Susan & Mary's laboratory. Susan presses the the button that opens the door. Johnny, Dukey, and Dark Vegan are dressed as inspectors.]

[Johnny, Dukey, and Dark Vegan walk to spaceship to inspect it while giving themselves a big thumbs up, but Mary pushes down the lever that sends them back to the pool, losing their costumes in the process. Jillian drinks her juice. Cut to Susan & Mary's laboratory. Susan presses the button that opens the door. A grappling hook is deployed. Johnny, Dukey, and Dark Vegan try to get to the spaceship, but fail.]

[Mary pushes down the lever that sends in a shuriken that cuts the rope and Johnny, Dukey, and Dark Vegan go back to the pool once again. Water translates back to the kitchen. Johnny, Dukey, and Dark Vegan are very wet.]

[Cut to Susan & Mary's laboratory. Susan & Mary are thinking of how to get Gil over for a tea party.]

[The alarm door blares for the last time. Susan get up angry.]

[Susan, not even looking at Johnny, gives Johnny the keys to the spaceship.]

[Cuts to Vegandon.]

[Everyone Cheers]

[Everyone Cheers again. Confetti translates to the Vegandon diner. The waitress serves something that was not toast.]

[Cuts outside of Johnny's House. Johnny and Dukey are skateboarding in the streets again. The spaceship lands on the front of Dark Vegan's House.]

[Johnny and Dukey skateboard away from Dark Vegan, screaming.]

Princess Johnny/99 Deeds of Johnny Test [ edit ]

Guess who's coming to johnny's for dinner/johnny's new bff [ edit ], johnny vs. bling bling iv/johnny's big sisters' smackdown [ edit ], king johnny/johnny re-animated [ edit ], good ol' johnny test/johnny x strikes back again [ edit ], season 5 [ edit ], fangs a lot johnny/johnny testosterone [ edit ], johnny two face/johnny susan, susan johnny [ edit ], my dinner with johnny/johnny alternative [ edit ], season 6 [ edit ], johnny vets dukey/johnny's #1 fan [ edit ], how to train your johnny/johnny and clyde [ edit ], johnny's supreme theme/past and present johnny [ edit ], johnny's head in the clouds/stop in the name of johnny [ edit ], dial j for johnny/road trip johnny [ edit ], code crackin' johnny/johnny goes viral [ edit ], the last flight of johnny x/johnny's last chapter [ edit ], cast [ edit ].

• Johnny Test (voiced by James Arnold Taylor)
• Dukey (voiced by Louis Chirillo in Seasons 1-4, Trevor Devall in Seasons 5-6)
• Susan Test (voiced by Maryke Hendrikse)
• Mary Test (voiced by Brittney Wilson in Seasons 1 and 5, Ashleigh Ball in Seasons 2-4 and 6)

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Ep 108. No Homework Johnny

• October 15, 2011

No homework Johnny is the 108th episode from the fourth season of the popular TV series Johnny Test. It centers around Johnny Test, a young boy who loves to experiment and try out new things with his genetically modified talking dog, Dukey.

In this episode, Johnny's school announces that there will be no more homework for students. Johnny is initially ecstatic about the news and decides to spend his newfound free time playing video games, hanging out with his friends, and pulling pranks on his sisters' experiments.

However, things start to take a turn when Johnny realizes that the no-homework policy is not as great as it seems. With no homework, the teachers in his school begin to assign lengthy assignments during class time that require students to work on them without any additional time during the day. Johnny starts to struggle to keep up with the workload, and his grades start to slip.

Feeling overwhelmed, Johnny turns to his sisters, Mary and Susan Test, for help. They agree to help Johnny with his assignments on the condition that he helps them with their experiments. Although Johnny initially agrees, he quickly regrets his decision when he finds himself knee-deep in his sisters' latest invention - a shrink ray.

As Johnny struggles to keep everything under control, his arch-rival Eugene takes advantage of Johnny's stress levels and starts to make fun of him. However, with determination and hard work, Johnny manages to get all his assignments done and even helps his sisters with their experiment.

In the end, Johnny learns that homework may be a chore, but it's also essential for academic success. The no-homework policy may have seemed like a good idea at first, but it ultimately led to added pressure and stress for both students and teachers.

Overall, No homework Johnny is an entertaining and educational episode that teaches kids the value of hard work and the importance of homework. It's a must-watch for Johnny Test fans and anyone who loves a good lesson wrapped up in a fun and exciting adventure.

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• Channel Cartoon Network
• First Aired October 15, 2011
• Language English

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Ripley review: Andrew Scott is the diabolical conman Tom Ripley in this arthouse adaptation

In high school I struggled to cut my writing homework for English literature down and would routinely hand in essays that were hundreds of words over the limit.

I argued that my teacher should be happy I was giving them more than they asked for.

His response went a little like: "Not when everyone else has managed to get out what they wanted to say, using fewer words and taking less of my time."

This is Ripley's problem. Its director, writer and producer, Steve Zaillian, would have you watch 7.8 hours worth of television to tell a version of a story that Anthony Minghella (most notable of the six Ripley adaptations) managed to tell 25 years ago with a two-hour movie.

Andrew Scott (Fleabag, All of Us Strangers ) leads this iteration as Tom Ripley, a duplicitous con man who we first meet masquerading as a debt collector and barely scraping by in 60s New York.

As in previous versions of the story, Tom needs little convincing when a wealthy man wants to pay him to travel to Italy and convince his rich and spoiled dilettante son Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn) to return to the US.

Tom is instantly enamoured by Dickie's life: He lazily adds haphazard brushstrokes to mediocre paintings and relaxes on his Amalfi coast-moored boat with his girlfriend Marge Sherwood (Dakota Fanning), who is trying and failing to write an Eat, Pray, Love-style book. Which is to say, "they do nothing".

Tom's desperation to cling to the life his proximity to Dickie affords him results in murder, deceit and fraud. (Yes, the parallels to the recent  Saltburn  are striking.)

In the age of streaming, Ripley is by no means the first adaptation with a blown-out run time. But the decisions from other directors to tell familiar stories over the course of several episodes instead of in a single film (most recently Mr and Mrs Smith ) have been justified by their additions to source material.

Ripley, however, subtracts key elements from the classic movie starring Matt Damon, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow. And it confines itself to telling the story of only the first of the five Patricia Highsmith novels that comprise the Ripley series. (Perhaps because Zaillian doesn't plan for this limited series to remain limited? Not that we have any indication of this, beyond the fact the show was named after the series as opposed to its first book, The Talented Mr Ripley.)

The reason Ripley is so long despite its comparatively thin narrative is because it leans painstakingly into the conventions of the psychological thriller genre, drawing out the minutiae of Tom's every movement and experience — partly to create an intoxicating visual world, but mostly to foster a sense of unease.

In this way, something that would seem simple and mundane in another context, like the sound of an elevator ascending, becomes anxiety-inducing.

It's incredibly effective at building glorious tension. But, over so many episodes, it's also exhausting.

As is Zaillian's decision to tell this story in black and white. Don't bother waiting for a mid-way transition to colour à la Poor Things — it isn't coming.

"The edition of the Ripley book I had on my desk had an evocative black and white photograph on the cover," Zaillian said of his decision in Vanity Fair last year. "As I was writing, I held that image in my mind. Black and white fits this story — and it's gorgeous."

There are moments when Zaillian's decision feels so fitting. For one, it lends a beady quality to Scott's eyes, which helps emphasise that this version of Tom is less morally grey. He's older (Scott is 47), beaten down from a life of poverty, visibly slimy and set in his scheming ways. (Yet somehow still attractive, because Scott is out here giving Hot Priest in everything he does.)

And in Zaillian's monochrome world, the use of light can be equal-parts transfixing and anxiety-inducing — whether it's dancing on the fur of a watchful cat or flashing across the eyes of a suspicious taxi driver.

But, despite this aesthetic appeal, there are more moments when the decision to go full black-and-white is irritating.

And part of what makes both Highsmith's original story and the 1999 film so psychologically thrilling is that they play out in the decadently beautiful dreamscape that is the Amalfi coast in the 60s. In those tellings, the incongruence of the dark events that take place within the vibrant setting were key. But, in Ripley, things start off dark and stay dark.

Colour is lacking in more than just the literal sense, too. While Fanning is perfectly suspicious as Marge, and Flynn makes for a brilliant choice as the charismatic Dickie, there's something missing in the chemistry of their relationship. Tom and Dickie's friendship doesn't feel genuine, either — Flynn isn't carefree enough and Scott isn't youthfully exuberant enough for it to be entirely plausible after the orchestration of their meeting is revealed.

And, somehow, all three characters are less rounded than they have been in previous versions of this story — none more so than our protagonist. We don't get overt glimpses at Tom's self-awareness as we did in the 1999 film when Damon quietly posited:

"Whatever you do, however terrible, however hurtful, it all makes sense, doesn't it? In your head? You never meet anybody who thinks they're a bad person."

Maybe that's because Scott's version of Tom has even less to lose than the Tom Ripleys that came before him. Maybe it's because Ripley is trying to be cerebral and show, rather than tell, absolutely everything — from the chore that is mopping up blood to what happens when you accidentally leave key evidence at a crime scene and have to double back for it.

That could also go some way to explaining the repeated visual parallels drawn between the Italian painter/murderer Caravaggio and Tom throughout the series, which was Zaillian's addition to the story.

But for what Ripley leaves out from Tom, Marge and Dickie's narratives, it adds immeasurably to its background characters. Italian actor Maurizio Lombardi is a stand-out as weary police inspector Pietro Ravini, as are the string of observant hotel concierges whose delightful expressiveness screams the extent to which they see through Tom.

And then there's Freddie Miles — Dickie's impossibly exhausting trust-fund-baby friend — refreshingly portrayed here by real-life trust-fund baby Eliot Sumner (whose parents are Sting and Trudie Styler). Their decision not to emulate the late Philip Seymour Hoffman's iconic version of Freddie is commendable.

Surprisingly, there are several moments of hilarity in Ripley; there are even darkly humorous moments in the wake of cold-blooded murders.

But each of these gags pale in comparison to the highly satisfying ending — which happens to be less wrenching than that of the 1999 film, and more exciting than the book.

(Ironically, I have gone over the word limit for this review.)

Ripley is streaming on Netflix.

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Milton’s Ryan Shea is part of an all-Hockey East pairing that has energized the resurgent Penguins

PITTSBURGH — The Steel City’s No. 3 defense pairing, with Ryan Shea on the left and Jack St. Ivany on the right, has been a gift from the Hockey East heavens, though neither blue liner made a direct skate from their respective college campuses to the Penguins’ blue line.

Shea, 27, grew up in Milton and played three years at BC High before a one-season tuneup with USHL Youngstown. Originally a Blackhawks draft pick, he turned pro as a free agent with the Stars after graduating from Northeastern in 2020, then joined the Penguins as a free agent last summer after three years of not getting a shot with the varsity Stars.

“It’s been a pretty long road to get here,” Shea said prior to facing his hometown Bruins for the first time. “Obviously, I didn’t get my opportunity in Dallas, even though I was playing pretty good hockey there. But that’s how the cookie crumbles sometimes — you’ve just got to be patient. I pretty much never gave up on my dream to play in the NHL.”

St. Ivany, a California kid from Manhattan Beach, began his college career at Yale, then transferred to Boston College after his sophomore season. Originally a Flyers draft pick, the 24-year-old was a free agent upon leaving the Heights in 2022, signed with the Penguins, and only recently was promoted from AHL Wilkes-Barre Scranton.

The infusion of youth on the back line, noted coach Mike Sullivan , has been a key element in helping boost the Penguins, who were 5-0-1 in their six April games prior to facing the Bruins. The recent hot streak had the team back in the hunt for one of the final two playoff spots in the Eastern Conference.

“We tried to sign him when he was coming out of college,” said Sullivan, the ex-Bruins bench boss, noting that Shea long had been on the club’s radar. “This time around, when we had the opportunity to sign him and add him to this group of defense, I was certainly excited. We had done some homework when he was coming out of Northeastern and then since he’s played at the American League level — he’s been one of the better defensemen at the AHL level in the role that he plays.”

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Shea’s game, not flashy, has been more that of a conservative, stay-at-home back liner, though in today’s game all defenseman are charged with more than just pushing guys away from their net. Sullivan refers to Shea as a “stabilizing” defenseman, one who can calm things down defensively and also help move pucks out of the defensive zone.

“He defends well … a calming force,” said Sullivan. “He makes good plays with the pucks. He has very deceptive moves and that helps us get pucks out of our end. He defends well with his stick, has good size [6 feet 2 inches, 200 pounds], good on the penalty kill, and that was the game we were hoping he was going to bring to our team.”

The Shea-St. Ivany duo ”has been real reliable for us,” added Sullivan, “and Ryan has been a big part of that … I think he is playing with more confidence this time around.”

Shea made his NHL debut with the Penguins in October and saw ample action through November before being returned to the AHL in early December. He’s only been a roster regular again since the start of April, which also coincides with that 5-0-1 run Pittsburgh took into the game here vs. the NHL’s other Black and Gold franchise.

“Honestly, it’s great,” said Shea, musing over what it meant to face the Bruins, the team he idolized as a kid growing up only a Red Line commute away from the Garden area. “You grow up watching the Bruins, guys like [Zdeno] Chara and [Patrice] Bergeron and guys even earlier, like [Johnny] Boychuk … the guys I liked to watch on the blue line. They brought a lot of joy to everyone in Mass. back in the day.”

Maroon part of power-play revamp

The Bruins’ power play, a bugaboo of late, rolled out with some changes here vs. the Penguins after going a low-pulse 2-for-27 over the nine previous games.

The most obvious twist had Pat Maroon , playing his first game in Black and Gold, manning the net front on the No. 2 unit, joined up front by Charlie Coyle and Danton Heinen . Kevin Shattenkirk , back for his first game action since April 2, returned to point duty, supported in large part by Morgan Geekie .

The first unit started the night with Jake DeBrusk among the shooters with regulars Brad Marchand , David Pastrnak , Pavel Zacha , and point man Charlie McAvoy . McAvoy entered the night with only one power-play goal all season (Nov. 18), but he had connected at even strength in each of the previous two games.

Per coach Jim Montgomery , the two power-play units for the most part operate under similar instructions, though some of the message is tailored to personnel as well as the time on ice each is allotted during a typical two-minute man advantage.

“It’s probably 60 percent the same message,” said Montgomery, “but we want the second unit to be more direct, because they’re not going to have as much time out there. We want more people and pucks to the net. Breakouts are a little bit different [between the two units]. That might be because of personnel, but also just a factor of time on the board.”

Shattenkirk, playing in only his 59th game of the season, entered the game with two power-play goals, the most of all Bruins defensemen this season. He had a familiar screener up front in Maroon. The two played together in Tampa in 2019-20 and have a Cup ring to prove it.

“We all know what he does and the strengths of his game,” said Shattenkirk. “A bit part of that [for Maroon] is being at the net front. I played with him at Tampa on the second power play. That was our M.O. to get pucks there. We know not only does he do a great job of screening, but he can make those little plays along the goal line, so again, I think he fits perfectly into the mold for what we are trying to do on our unit — he’s a great asset to have him slot in there.”

Cassidy leads Knights to another playoff berth

The Vegas Golden Knights, with ex-Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy in charge, on Friday night locked down the eighth and final Western Conference playoff berth. Entering the 8:20 puck drop here, the last two Eastern berths remained up for grabs among the Penguins, Islanders, Red Wings, and Capitals. The Flyers also remained in the hunt, but began the day having played the most games (80) of the “wannabe” bunch. It’s possible the Bruins won’t know their Round 1 opponent until the East wraps up regular-season play Wednesday, a night that has the Penguins playing the Islanders in Elmont, N.Y. …The Bruins will enjoy a day of rest in D.C. on Sunday, face the Caps there the next night, then return for the season wrap Tuesday night vs. Ottawa on Causeway Street ... In his 451 regular-season games prior to facing the Penguins, McAvoy had 12 power-play goals. Shattenkirk, playing in game No. 950, entered with 44.

Kevin Paul Dupont can be reached at [email protected] .