DK Pittsburgh Sports · Feb 9, 2020
Kovacevic: Two more stolen points nice, though they hardly erase mounting lapses
SUNRISE, Fla. -- "We did a lot of things right. You win the vast majority of these games.”
If one would've witnessed a minute -- maybe even scant seconds -- of the Penguins' 3-2 sickly, survival-mode victory over the Panthers on this Saturday night at BB&T Center, it'd have been clear that quote couldn't have come from the Pittsburgh perspective.
Which it didn't. It was spoken afterward by Joel Quenneville, Florida's coach.
"Frustrating loss," he'd further bemoan, visibly flustered. "We did a lot of good things."
A lot?
No, almost all of the good things:
• Shots: 35-22
• Shot attempts: 64-42
• Clean breakaways: 3-1
• Partial breaks: 7-2
• Odd-man breaks: 1,000,000 to who cares?