Pick your platitude.
Plain and simple, the Devils were the better team last night, hanging a 5-2 loss on our Penguins at PPG Paints Arena. In the process snapping our five-game winning streak and sending the 18,321 faithful in attendance home disappointed.
The evening actually started out with some promise. Indeed, for 20 minutes and change it looked as though our Pens might have their way with the visitors. Moments after Jake Guentzel stoved a shot off the left post, the shake-meister sprang Bryan Rust on a breakaway. Rusty gave Vitek Vanecek a shoulder feint as he slashed through the crease before roofing a backhander at 6:36.