During the ill-fated 1986-87 season, Penguins coach Bob Berry, exasperated by his team’s maddening inconsistency, famously labelled them “circus performers.”
Up one game, down the next.
If Berry had been peering into a crystal ball he couldn’t have come up with a more apt description of our current vintage of flightless waterfowl. Three nights after authoring arguably their finest performance of the season in a 5-1 stomping of the Kings, we put forth one of our sloppiest and most languid.
The result? An ugly 5-1 bookend loss in the battle of the birds.
Aside from a jack-rabbit start, about the only thing that went right for the black-and-gold came while working on a power-play five minutes into the second period.