If the Penguins learned one thing this week, it's that they have to work as hard, if not harder, than their opponents to beat them. Skill to win is nothing without the will to win. Our team's too quick in the corners, and sooner or later Jagr or Kovalev are going to break the game open. But if we're screwing around trying to be cute, that's not our game. Or at least it shouldn't be their game.
Problem is, they still have a tendency to slip into it.
Or in and out of it. It seems as if their level of perspiration is directly proportionate to the amount of desperation they're feeling at a given point in the game. It just so happens that they trailed on the scoreboard when all but two of those third periods began. When the Penguins are down and almost out, they turn it up. And going into the weekend, they had scored the first goal only once in their first six games.