WASHINGTON — The Penguins got licked Saturday night.
Not the way Tampa Bay’s Ryan Callahan got licked on the chin — literally — Friday night. The Penguins would have preferred that, weird as it was. The licking they took was much more painful, licked on the Capital One Arena scoreboard by the Washington Capitals, 6-3, in Game 5 of their second-round playoff series. They trail, 3-2, with Game 6 Monday night at PPG Paints Arena.
Is that sound we are hearing the crumbling of a would-be Penguins dynasty?
No, no, no, they insisted to a man.