The memories are fresh, which means any psychological scars are, too.
It was, after all, just last Friday that the Penguins sputtered and stumbled through their worst performance of the season, a 5-1 loss to the Rangers at Madison Square Garden.
New York dominated play from the earliest shifts of that game, building a 3-0 lead in the first 4:16 of play and never being seriously threatened. Pretty much every facet of the Penguins' game looked out of sorts, while the Rangers were efficient and effective in just about about everything they did.
"They played extremely well," Mike Sullivan said after the Penguins' game-day skate Tuesday.