Devils Nip Penguins in Shootout, 2-1

The Penguins played one of their finest games of the young season against the Devils yesterday afternoon at the Prudential Center in Newark.

Indeed, we pretty much dominated our Metro rivals in virtually every conceivable stat, including shot attempts, shots on goal, scoring chances, high-danger chances, you name it. Everywhere but on the scoreboard, where we wound up on the short end of a 2-1 decision.

Limited to a single power play, our bread ‘n’ butter of late, by arguably our least favorite referee, Garrett Rank, the Pens could only nick Devils netminder Jake Allen for a single goal despite launching 34 shots on net.

That came at 12:33 of the second period on a long-range blast off the stick of Ryan Graves that struck Ondrej Palat and dipped inside the crossbar and far post. Allen blunted everything else we threw his way.

As for the Devils’ lone regulation marker? That came 48 seconds before the first intermission courtesy on an unconscionable brain-cramp on the part of Kris Letang. Skating back to our end to corral a loose puck with Devils rookie Arseny Gritsyuk in hot pursuit, No.

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