Playoffs in Pittsburgh -- in October?!

If we were talking about the Penguins, this topic would make no sense at all, since the season starts in October,  If we meant football, it would be possible, provided it was almost Halloween and the rest of the division had managed a collective two wins by the midpoint of the football year.

But Hockey hasn't yet started, the Steelers are 0-3 (a very correctable 0-3 to be fair, but winless nonetheless), and there is one...more...team here...right?