In a battle of the mustard-gold uni’s, our Penguins got a heaping (and perhaps unwelcome) helping of playoff-style hockey last night in the Music City. The results weren’t pretty.
Living up to their “Smashville” alias, the Predators played a smash-mouth game and gave our guys a pretty thorough going over, both physically and on the scoreboard. Flexing their muscles, the Preds pounded us to the tune of a 36-14 advantage in hits. Like running into the New York Islanders on steroids.
They were especially hard on our captain, Sidney Crosby, targeting him on numerous occasions.