Jarry Shines; Penguins Rake Leafs
Following Thursday’s 6-0 rout of woeful Montreal, I confess I wasn’t looking forward to our rematch with Toronto last night at Scotiabank Arena. After all, the Maple Leafs were the hottest team in the league with a hot goalie to boot. Usually the Penguins’ kryptonite. Then there was the not-so-little matter of the 7-1 hiding we laid on them back on October 23. Surely they’d be out for revenge.
Well, it turned out to be a long night all right…for the Leafs. Our boys methodically took control early and never wavered despite constant pressure from the home team from start to finish. Resulting in a crisp 2-0 victory.
Jake Guentzel opened the scoring at 5:46 of the first period with a nifty play off the rush. After taking a pass from Bryan Rust high in the Toronto zone, Jake threaded his way through three defenders. Rather than force a pass to Sidney Crosby in the right circle, No. 59 cut across the slot and buried a backhander behind Leafs netminder Jack Campbell for his team-high seventh goal of the campaign.
The Pens padded their lead to 2-0 with just under three minutes left in the frame, again off the rush.
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