For significant stretches of this season, the penalty kill has been the Penguins’ Achilles’ heel.
But on Thursday the penalty kill played a drastically different role.
The penalty kill, riding a wave of momentum and suddenly brimming with confidence, gave the Penguins some much-needed juice in a 4-3 overtime win over the New York Islanders at PPG Paints Arena.
That group delivered a 4-for-4 performance, holding the Islanders with a power-play goal on seven shots, to run their success rate recently to 24 for 26 (92.3 percent) over the past seven games.
“I thought our penalty kill was really good tonight,” Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said.