from Jason Mackey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,

Urgency. Conviction. Determination. Passion. Emotion.

Those five words appeared by the 90-second mark of Penguins coach Mike Sullivan’s postgame comments Monday following a 4-2 loss to the Colorado Avalanche at Pepsi Center.

They described this one and the tenuous state of these Penguins perfectly, in that they need to have all of those things more consistently.

The Penguins have lost five of their past seven, but this one really hurt. It left them with just two of a possible six points on a three-game road trip, and it could trigger the shake-up that general manager Jim Rutherford alluded to last Wednesday.

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