It was a week ago in this spot where we were looking ahead at the absolute gauntlet of games the Pittsburgh Penguins are going to be facing over the next couple of weeks. Given how bad they had looked in home defeats against Winnipeg and Utah, it seemed like there was a very real chance that things were going to get even uglier very, very quickly.
Then they went out there over the past week and had their best seven-day stretch of the season, winning three straight games against the Vancouver Canucks, Boston Bruins and Calgary Flames.