The Penguins entered this afternoon’s matinee matchup with Calgary riding a six-game winning streak that included thumpings of some of the top teams in the Eastern Conference. The Flames, smack in the middle of a five-game road trip and losers of four-straight by a combined score of 17-6, were mired in the doldrums.
If ever a game had TRAP stenciled all over it, this one surely did.
According to script, the Pens, who’d played so darn well since the Christmas break, reverted to some bad old habits that conjured up memories of that horrendous 0-4-4 slide in December.