OK, so this wasn't the Penguins' most impressive performance of the season.
They've played better games -- a lot of them, frankly -- and done it against better opponents.
But when a team has lost six games in a row, its priority is to get standings points, not style points, and the bottom line on the Penguins' 7-3 victory against Ottawa at PPG Paints Arena Tuesday night is pretty basic: A four-goal win is better than a five-alarm tire fire.
That's a charitable way to characterize their 0-3 swing through California last week, when they lost to the bottom three teams in the Western Conference in a span of four days.