from Tim Benz of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,

The Penguins gave up four goals in roughly nine minutes after a scoreless first and ended up losing the game 5-2. It’s the third straight defeat for the Penguins and their sixth in eight tries. Five of those six losses have come in regulation. So the Penguins aren’t even getting loser points.

That’s not good for a team that is struggling to climb the Eastern Conference standings from 12th place into the eighth and final playoff spot. That gap currently stands at seven points, with four teams between the Pens and the East’s second wild-card spot.

And Sullivan was left without answers as to what went wrong in the Penguins’ latest failed attempt to get back on track.

“This one’s a tough one for me to assess coming off the bench. Usually I’ve got a pretty good feel. It wasn’t like we were under siege or anything. We just gave up some untimely goals,” Sullivan said.

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