Oilers Lay Waste to Crumbling Penguins

Back when the score was 1-0 in favor of our Penguins (seems like 100 years ago) a couple of Wright’s Gym members stopped at the front desk and asked what I thought of our chances to beat the Oilers.

“Not good,” I replied. “They’ve got (Connor) McDavid and (Leon) Draisaitl.”

I’m not often prophetic. I was last night.

Indeed, the Oilers proceeded to pound our disintegrating Pens, 7-2, in a contest that was no contest.

I wasn’t able to watch much of the game because the gym was uber-busy. But from the little I did see, it looked like an NHL team taking an AHL team to the woodshed. Make that an ECHL team. The disparity was canyon-esque.

My apologies to those who were hoping to read a traditional game summary. There simply wasn’t much of a game to summarize. Nor am I going to delve into a litany of our shortcomings. They’ve been well documented, here and on other sites.

I’m not going to beat our players up, either. Hockey players are notoriously good guys…the nature of the sport fairly demands that they be.

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