RALEIGH, N.C. – Remember when the Penguins couldn’t win a game on the road?
Like, way back in the second week of January?
If so, forget it.
They overcame a sluggish start and went on to bulldoze Carolina, 7-1, at PNC Arena tonight.
It was the second consecutive away victory for the Penguins, who had lost five of their previous six on the road, and their third overall.
They are 29-11-5 and climbed to within one point of second-place Columbus in the Metropolitan Division.
The only major negative for the Penguins was that fourth-line winger Scott Wilson was injured 5 ½ minutes into the third period, when Carolina defenseman Matt Tennyson misfired on an attempt to hit Penguins center Eric Fehr and ended up knocking Wilson’s legs out from under him.