PHN 5-Minute Penguins Postgame: High-Risk Pens ‘Beat Ourselves’ in OT Loss

The Pittsburgh Penguins had a chance to claim first place in the Metro Division but instead lost to one of the worst road teams in the NHL. The Penguins had a 1-0 third period lead but lost 2-1 in OT to the Seattle Kraken after some sloppy giveaways in the third.

The Penguins were outshot 18-4 in the third period and only goalie Tristan Jarry prevented a regulation loss. Jarry made a handful of sparkling saves in the final period to preserve a 1-1 tie, including stopping Ryan Donato from point-blank range twice and Jordan Eberle’s breakaway.

“I thought the first two periods we were fine. We could have had a little more net traffic and put it there more than we did, but I thought we were playing the right way,” head coach Mike Sullivan said. “In the third period, we beat ourselves. We turned into a high-risk hockey team.”

Evgeni Malkin had a pair of turnovers in the third, though one indirectly led to his power-play goal when Seattle winger Marcus Johansson tried to finish the resulting two-on-one by colliding with Jarry.

The Pittsburgh Penguins are 17-2-1 in their last 20 games and are tied with the New York Rangers and Carolina Hurricanes atop the Metro Division, but New York has the first tiebreaker.

Get the PHN 5-minute Penguins postgame with PHN Editor-in-Chief Dan Kingerski.