Listless Penguins Skewered by Sabres

This isn’t going to be a very involved game summary. In fact, I’ll cut to the chase and spare you a lot of gory details.

The Penguins just didn’t have it yesterday. To borrow from the old Association song Cherish, “listless is the word I use to describe” our effort during an uninspired 4-2 loss to Buffalo. Skewered on a spit and roasted by the opportunistic Sabres like so many penguin-kabobs.

Perhaps the effect of playing our third game in four days.

Our best players paved the way, if you can call it that. The top line of Sidney Crosby, Jake Guentzel and Bryan Rust…normally redoubtable…was a combined minus-five. Our top defensive pair of Kris Letang and Brian Dumoulin, a combined minus-three.

However, the poster child for our uneven play may well have been Jason Zucker.

With the Pens down 2-0 midway through the second period but still very much in the game, the snakebitten winger broke into the Sabres’ end on a two-on-one with Jeff Carter. The defender peeled off to cover the pass, giving Zucker a clear lane to the net.

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