Penguins Score (!) but Fall to Senators in OT

It seemed our Penguins would never score again. Senators goalie Joonas Korpisalo had stopped our previous 33 shots on goal with the aplomb of a Vezina Trophy candidate. With the clock ticking down to 30 seconds left in regulation the situation, indeed, appeared grim.

Then Kris Letang deftly skirted the Senators’ blue line while avoiding two checkers and slipped a backhand pass to Erik Karlsson. The former Sens star wired a shot from the top of the left circle that hit the stick of Jacob Bernard-Docker and skittered wide of the net.

Sidney Crosby scooped up the biscuit along the right-half wall and calmly surveyed the scene before zipping a pass to Evgeni Malkin at center point. Geno unleased…