With their season and playoff hopes absolutely on the brink, the Penguins pulled together and drubbed the Red Wings at PPG Paints Arena last night, 6-3. In the process, keeping their flickering playoff hopes on life support.
Both teams had played the day before, but you’d never have guessed it, at least on the part of our Pens. Fully grasping the gravity of the situation, we raced out of the starting blocks while piling up an early 16-3 edge in shots on goal and 1-0 lead on a tally that deflected in off Reilly Smith.
The Wings counterpunched at 15:39 on a wicked wrister from between the circles by Lucas Raymond.