COMEBACK EFFORT FALLS SHORT AGAIN
FIRST PERIOD
After 60 games and a lot of close calls and good chances
lately, Garrett
Wilson cashes in! Believe it baby! Nice play by Matt Cullen in
the defensive zone to start it all out and a great pass by Teddy Blueger over
to make it happen. 1-0 Pens.
It wouldn’t last much more than 1:30, Kris Letang pinches
but its not unreasonable until Marcus
Pettersson loses an edge and oh man why isn’t Brian
Dumoulin his partner? 1-1
57 seconds later Erik Cernak unleashes
a shot that beats Casey DeSmith to
the glove. 2-1 Tampa.
Shots 19-13 Tampa after one.
SECOND PERIOD
Pens get a power play but the Lightning score.
Oh no, reset the shorthanded goal against counter
Less than a minute later Jared McCann gets
it back for Pittsburgh from the left side.
Jake Guentzel wraps
around and sets up Bryan Rust for
a slam dunk to tie the game at 3.
Pens flip the table for 14-8 shot edge in the second period.
THIRD PERIOD
All downhill from here with Jack Johnson on
the ice defending Tyler Johnson line,
guess who scores?
East Palestine’s J.T. Miler pushes Tampa’s lead to 5-3 by
snapping a shot by DeSmith.
Sidney Crosby takes
the puck away and passes for Tanner
Pearson to slam it home. 5-4 Pens trail.
But the Pens get no closer and lose.
SOME THOUGHTS
- Probably no shame in losing to the best team in the league by 1 goal in their house. Especially without the services of the injured Evgeni Malkin. But a loss is a loss is a loss.
Pittsburgh will finish off the road trip on Monday against
Philly.
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