Penguins Season Slip Slidin’ Away

Slip slidin’ away. Slip slidin’ away. You know the nearer your destination the more you’re slip slidin’ away.

The lyrics to the old Paul Simon song could easily be adapted to describe the plight of our present-day Penguins. The nearer they are to winning, the more they let games slip away.

And so it was with last night’s 3-2 loss to the Kraken at PPG Paints Arena. Our seventh in a row for those keeping track.

The Pens certainly didn’t play horribly. You might even say we were a bit unlucky. Bryan Rust missed giving us an early lead by a fraction of an inch when his rising wrister slammed off the iron seven minutes in. Later in the period Kasperi Kapanen, he of three goals in his past 51 regular-season games fame, missed a crack at a yawning net from the side of the cage.

It doesn’t help that bottom-six centers Teddy Blueger and Jeff Carter remained sidelined. Or that an illness is snaking its way through the locker room at precisely the wrong time.

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