The Penguins were dealt a tough blow before the game even started, as Ryan Shea was ruled out with an upper-body injury sustained in the second period of the game against the Jets. He is listed as day-to-day.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been incredible for us,\u201d Muse said of the defenseman. \u201cHis game\u2019s continuing to grow. The puck movement, defensive play, penalty killing \u2013 he’s been obviously a huge part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ryan Graves, who slotted into the lineup, ended up taking a penalty on the first shift. The Hurricanes converted right away, with Sebastian Aho\u2019s shot deflecting in off of Connor Dewar\u2019s stick past Stuart Skinner. Carolina ended up outshooting Pittsburgh 7-0 to start the frame.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s a tough way to start the game. But even there, like, that happens, what do we do next?\u201d Muse said. \u201cI feel like with our group, we’ve responded to more of those moments, and more moments than not this year. Today, we didn\u2019t. We just kind of let it continue to build in the wrong way.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Penguins did start to generate a little bit later in the period, and shots ended up being just 9-5 in favor of Carolina. And they managed to keep the deficit at just one after 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
But Carolina took over in the second period, finding two more power-play goals to go 3-for-3 to start the game. The Penguins entered the game with the NHL\u2019s No. 1 penalty-kill unit, but struggled today.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, not our best. We need to be better for Stu,\u201d Noel Acciari said. \u201cFirst one, unlucky bounce, went off Dewey\u2019s stick. But overall, can\u2019t give up three goals on the penalty kill. We\u2019re better than that. We\u2019re going to shake that one off. Kind of forget about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Penguins were dealt a tough blow before the game even started, as Ryan Shea was ruled out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-145670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-pittsburgh","9":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","10":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}