If Saturday night’s cave-in at Calgary wasn’t enough to convince Penguins POHO/GM Kyle Dubas to cash in his chips and sell at the upcoming deadline, then last night’s 6-1 humiliation at the hands of the Oilers surely did.
Playing the second of back-to-backs (the Oilers were too), the Pens managed to hang around for a little while. We limited our hosts to an 11-8 advantage in first-period shots on goal and a 1-0 lead on a rebound goal by Zach Hyman.
We nearly tied the score on a pair of rapid-fire chances by Rickard Rakell and Sidney Crosby early in the second period, but Oilers netminder Calvin Pickard shut ‘em down.