Pittsburgh Penguins Sting The Columbus Blue Jackets

The Pittsburgh Penguins were across the state line tonight visiting the Columbus Blue Jackets in a match-up of the fourth and eighth place teams in the Metropolitan Division.

It’s getting to that point in the season. The point where each game seems to carry that much more weight. Where if you are going to make that trip to the playoffs, you have to prove that you are a playoff-caliber team. That’s exactly what the Penguins were looking to do tonight, as they played their division rivals.

In what likely caused a sigh of relief from at least one Columbus Blue Jacket, as well as groans from the Penguins’ faithful, Pittsburgh decided to scratch enforcer Tom Sestito. With Carl Hagelin and Eric…