At some point, the Penguins were going to lose two in a row.
At some point.
But at this point?
Not in 127 days had Mike Sullivan’s team lost consecutive hockey games, not since Jan. 12 and Jan. 15.
To call this bad timing would seriously undersell it. Dreadful timing. Fateful timing. Now you’re getting there.
Stretching this little skid to three will end their season Tuesday night in Tampa, and it’s a full caboodle of problems they’ll pack onto that flight to Florida.
Sullivan spent part of the morning of Game 5 explaining that his Penguins were going to need contributions from everyone, on the ice and off, if they were going to achieve the one goal these glorious hockey spring times are all about.