from Ron Cook of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,

The Penguins looked very much like a team playing just its second game in nine days against one of the worst hockey clubs in the NHL on a nondescript Monday night in January in the middle of a long season in which they are running away with the league's Metropolitan Division.

That's a long way of saying the Penguins were disinterested and stunk in a 5-1 loss to the Florida Panthers at Consol Energy Center.

It happens.

All teams -- even the better teams -- have a few really rotten nights in an 82-game schedule.

I know it happens.

There is no reason to panic.

But who saw this coming?

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