During an especially riotous moment of Mel Brooks’ classic 1974 western spoof, Blazing Saddles, bewildered henchman Taggart uttered the unforgettable phrase, “What in the wide, wide world of sports is a goin’ on?”
I’ve found myself asking a similar question over the past week or so about our Penguins. How the heck did this (our current hot streak) happen? More to the point, how did we manage to turn our season around so completely?
Talk about a night-and-day difference. Actually, Jekyll and Hyde is more like it. During a grisly 10-game stretch that began with a sloppy 6-3 loss to the Islanders on October 30, the Pens went on a ghastly 1-7-2 slide.