With 10 games remaining at PPG Paints Arena, the Penguins still have a chance to break the franchise record for fewest home regulation losses in a full 80-plus-game season. It was set at five in the 1974-75 season when the team’s stars were named Jean Pronovost, Pierre Larouche, Rick Kehoe and Vic Hadfield. The current club has lost four games.
That probably won’t come as much consolation to the crowd of 18,664 that paid big dollars Sunday to watch the Penguins get dominated by the Detroit Red Wings, 5-2.
Talk about lousy timing.
The Penguins’ previous home regulation losses were to Minnesota and the New York Rangers in November and St.