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Questioning The Pittsburgh Penguins Work Ethic After A Home Loss To The New Jersey Devils

01/29/2019 at 6:53am EST

from Jason Mackey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,

“The urgency and desperation and work ethic … there should be a lot of energy from our group,” Crosby said. “It didn’t seem like there was.”

It was a similar theme echoed in other parts of the Penguins dressing room.

“Everyone can’t have their best game every single night, but we can control our effort, attitude and work ethic,” Patric Hornqvist said. “That’s what we have come back to and start controlling.”

The loss stung for myriad reasons, but the biggest one was probably where the Penguins are at in their season — about 60 percent of the way through, the time where stuff should be getting serious.

“We talked a lot about getting this back stretch of the year off to a good start,” Matt Cullen said. “We didn’t have it. There’s really no reason for that.”...

“It is concerning,” coach Mike Sullivan said of losing like this so late in the season.

“Every team in this league plays hard. Give Jersey credit. They played hard, and they defended hard. We have to do a better job in those areas of our game so that we can bring more consistency.”

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Game highlights of the Pens 6-3 loss to the New Jersey Devils can be watched below.

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