Last season, sans top guns Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, our boys throttled the defending Cup champion Lightning, 6-2. This year it was a similar story. Skating with an almost manic intensity, we buried the poor Arizona Coyotes like Rover’s bone in the back yard by an identical score.
Indeed, the black and gold opened the game as if shot from a cannon. Crosby ignited the pyrotechnics just 1:22 into the season, converting on a nifty backhand pass out of the corner from Jake Guentzel.
The next few minutes were a blur, as the Pens attacked the Coyotes with a controlled fury.