There’s a truism in sports. Great teams make their own luck.
If that’s the case, what does it say about our Penguins? After limiting the Panthers, one of the league’s top teams, to just four shots on goal in the first period last night, we appeared to snatch the lead…and on a power-play goal no less…early in the second period.
Alas, Rickard Rakell’s would-be tally, which would’ve given us a rare lead and snapped a personal 10-game goalless drought, was overturned on a coach’s challenge. The goal was promptly taken off the board and the tenor of the game took a 180-degree nightmare turn.