Penguins Drop Tough One to the Capitals

I’d touched on it in my series preview. A trait that, unfortunately, surfaced in spades during the Penguins’ come-from-front 4-3 loss to Washington in Game 3 last night before a packed house of black-and-gold faithful at PPG Paints Arena. A pivotal affair that may have permanently swung the series in favor of Barry Trotz’ crew.

This Capitals team is a different bunch than the one we eclipsed in each of the last two postseasons. Counterintuitive in a way, given that they lost a passel of good-to-solid pros over the summer. But the proof was plain to see.

Not that we didn’t show plenty of character, too. I was duly impressed by the way we controlled the tempo…at least for 40 minutes…and stood…