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Sharks become the latest to feast on faltering Penguins

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The Penguins have looked like a team intent on making history for most of this season.

Saturday night, they finally made it happen.

It probably wasn't exactly what they had in mind, though.

Their 5-0 loss to San Jose at SAP Center was their sixth defeat in a row, the first time that has happened since Mike Sullivan replaced Mike Johnston as coach in mid-December, 2015.

Indeed, per stats man extraordinaire Bob Grove, it's just their second such free fall in the past 14 years, the other having been Dec.