Penguins Blow Lead, Suffer Crushing Groundhog Day OT Loss to Islanders

You can blame this one on me.

I had the lead-in to my Penguins-Islanders game summary all thought out. I was even going to include a photo of the Kool-Aid Man to reference the fact that I was starting to believe in this team (aka drink the Kool-Aid). I even waited till the end of the second period to commit it to paper, just to be sure we weren’t going to blow our lead.

Then I wrote it down and we blew our lead. The PenguinPoop curse is alive and well.

The old hockey adage that a 3-1 lead is the most difficult to protect proved painfully prescient last night. After skating circles around the visiting Islanders for two periods, we let the lead slip away late in regulation and bowed, 4-3, in overtime on Brock Nelson’s breakaway goal.

To allow this game to slip through our collective fingers is…well…I just can’t come up with adjectives to describe this latest fiasco of a loss. Let’s just say you can’t count on anything with this team. Especially when it comes to protecting a lead.

Once upon a time, all was well…even jolly…at the Paint Can.

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