Those were two doggedly similar hockey clubs on the Uptown ice Thursday night, so doggedly similar it was probably no coincidence that their latest entanglement fell in the same week as the Westminster Kennel Club dogged show.
These Penguins and Detroit Red Wings were separated by numerical margins so slim you couldn’t put a rolling puck between them, so no decisive outcome was logically foreseen.
Naturally, the Penguins rang up half a dozen goals and won by half of a half dozen, 6-3 being your final.
“I’m not gonna score from there on a wrist shot too often, or ever,” said defenseman Ben Lovejoy, who fired home the first goal of the night from very near the half boards beyond the right circle.