Sullivan: ‘They got what they deserved, and so did we’

TORONTO -- This city likes to think of itself as the center of the hockey universe, with a deep appreciation for everything about the game.

Not so.

If that truly were the case, the Penguins' 4-0 loss to the Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena Thursday night would have been stopped for a brief ceremony every time the Penguins won a faceoff.

Those were, after all, pretty special occasions. Rare enough to be darned near historic, actually.

And it's not just that the Penguins lost a significant majority of the draws -- Toronto finished with a 33-20 advantage, a success rate of 62 percent -- but that three of those spawned sequences that ended with Matt Murray fishing the puck out of his net.

The Maple…