FORWARDS
Grade: C-
When a quality showing by the fourth line of Riley Sheahan, Tom Kuhnhackl and Zach Aston-Reese is one of the few highlights for the forwards, it doesn’t bode well for the outcome. The Conor Sheary-Derick Brassard-Bryan Rust line played well, too, but Phil Kessel again failed to record a shot on goal and was guilty of giving the puck away to spark a sequence that led to a game-changing short-handed goal by the Flyers. The best news for the Penguins was that Evgeni Malkin was able to return to the game after Flyers center Jori Lehtera fell on his left leg late in the first period.