The Pittsburgh Penguins are traveling to Boston for Game 3 of their Eastern Conference finals series against the Bruins down 0-2 after dropping the first two games on home ice.
It's a situation few of the team's fans would have expected at this point in the series, but the fact of the matter is that Pittsburgh has been severely outplayed by Boston in five of the six periods.
Trailing in a series for the first time during the 2013 NHL playoffs following a Game 1 loss, the Penguins were expected to play with more intensity and give a better effort in Game 2. But, they failed miserably and the result was an embarrassing 6-1 defeat.
Of all the things that could go wrong for the Penguins, it was their failure to score goals, which fans did not expect. After all, Pittsburgh scored more goals than any other team during the regular season and entered this Eastern Conference finals as the highest-scoring club that also had the best power-play percentage.
With a superstar-laden forward group that includes future Hall of Famers such as Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Jarome Iginla, the Penguins' struggles offensively have be ...
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