I didn’t think it was humanly possible for our Penguins to play worse at the outset of a game than they did against the Kings on Thursday night and still come away with a victory.
I was wrong. In terms of languid ineptitude, our guys outdid themselves during the opening 20 minutes against Columbus last night. To wit, we yielded the first 11 shots on goal. Kris Letang’s bungled outlet attempt at 7:13, which deflected off the skate of Johnny Gaudreau and squarely onto the stick of Boone Jenner in the slot, brought to mind Marc-Andre Fleury’s disastrous playoff bobble of a couple of seasons back that cost Vegas a trip to the Final. It also staked the Blue Jackets to a 1-0 lead.
Eclipsed in sheer awfulness only by Letang’s errant pass off the boards to set up Jack Roslovic’s shorthanded breakaway in the waning minutes of the period. So open was the Blue Jackets’ forward that he had time to consume a four-course meal and dessert, too, before beating Tristan Jarry glove side.
Heck, even when we began our pushback early in the second period we managed to shoot ourselves in the foot.
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