As a general rule, games between our Penguins and Buffalo are usually tame affairs featuring plenty of skating and up-tempo play, but little in the way of WWE-type action.
That script blew out the nearest exit door last night at PPG Paints Arena. Playing Sgt. Slaughter to the Sabres’ Iron Sheik (sorry…I’m dating myself), the Pens took it to the visitors physically as well as artistically en route to a 3-2 overtime triumph, our sixth win in a row.
The fuse on the powder keg was lit with 6:43 left in the first period, when Zach Aston-Reese rammed Sabres d-man Jacob Bryson into the boards, drawing an immediate challenge from towering Tage Thompson.