Resilient Penguins Rebound, Ground Flyers 5-1

Following our soul-crushing, come-from-in-front loss to the Islanders on Thursday night, you had to wonder how our Penguins would respond.

Although it wasn’t necessarily one for the highlight reels, we overcame a sluggish start—to say nothing of a determined if banged-up Philly squad—to capture a 5-1 victory yesterday afternoon at PPG Paints Arena. A contest that was way more competitive than the final score would indicate.

Sporting four brand-new forward lines, the trickle-down effect of a scary injury to Nick Bonino, we snatched the early lead at 5:52 of the first period on a tally by our dramatically redesigned third line. Rickard Rakell pounced on a loose puck behind the Philly net and…