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Capitals Gain, Penguins Slide Continues

After climbing to the top of the Metropolitan Division in 2019-20, the Penguins unraveled, losing six-straight games and going 3-8 in their final 11. Even a prolonged Covid break couldn’t shake us from our funk. Months later we fell like a spent leaf to Montreal in the qualifying round of the playoffs.

The past, as they say, is prologue. In the wake of a disheartening 6-3 loss yesterday afternoon to blood rival Washington, we appear to be vice locked in a death spiral of similar proportions.

We’ve lost four in a row by a combined score of 18-9.