Penguins Throttle Sabres in Preseason Finale
I’m pleased to report the reverse PenguinPoop curse is alive and well. Yesterday I opined in my season preview that this could potentially be a fall-back campaign for the black and gold.
Based on last night’s game at PPG Paints Arena, the Penguins are out to prove me wrong. Dead wrong. Playing with threshing-machine precision, our guys annihilated an overmatched Sabres squad, 7-1. A contest that was every bit as lopsided as the score would indicate.
If our Pens go on to the win the Stanley Cup you’ll have me and my cracked crystal ball to thank (lol).
As Eminem once rapped, back to reality.
Following a largely uninspired preseason in which coach Mike Sullivan rightfully gave liberal amounts of ice time to the kids for evaluation purposes, he went with the full monty last night. The results were impressive to say the least.
The forwards buzzed like bees around Mike Lange’s proverbial hive and the defense, plus Pierre-Olivier Joseph and minus projected regular Marcus Pettersson, was virtually air-tight. Making for a leisurely 22-save evening between the pipes for Tristan Jarry.