Even though the Pittsburgh Penguins opened the 2023-24 regular season with a disappointing home-opening loss to the Chicago Blackhawks, they managed to bounce back in a big way with an extremely impressive weekend that featured back-to-back wins against the Washington Capitals and Calgary Flames.
In the former, the Penguins played one of the most complete games they have played in years by systematically shutting down the Capitals and cruising to a 4-0 win. The power play scored a couple of goals, the goaltending was strong, the defensive play was even stronger and they did pretty much everything right to completely dominate a divisional rival.