Bruins Edge Penguins, 2-1

Every once in a while life prevents me from doing a full recap of a Penguins game. This is one of those times.

Fortunately, from a retelling standpoint, there wasn’t much activity on the scoreboard. Erik Karlsson, who played a sensational game, staked us to the early lead 42 seconds in on a long-range wrister. However, by the six-minute mark, Bruins had snatched the lead and the momentum on a pair of tallies by Marat Khusnutdinov and Casey Mittlestadt fifty seconds apart.

Boston proceeded to dominate the first period while making zone entries and exits tough sledding for our Pens. After chasing the game, and the Bruins, for the opening 20 minutes, our guys began to find their stride in the second period and flipped the script in the third while outshooting our hosts 13-8.

Unfortunately, we couldn’t solve Jeremy Swayman.

Some random observations.

Even when we aren’t at our best, this bunch never gives up or gives in. Such was the case Tuesday night. The Pens were in it right up till the bitter end.

Centering for Rickard Rakell and Bryan Rust, rookie Ben Kindel played a whale of a game.

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