And to think, this was from the guy carrying the entirety of the franchise's confidence ...
My goodness. That was a real thing.
Evgeni Malkin had just skated pretty much the circumference of the Consol Energy Center ice surface, he dashed and darted through the Carolina defense, had Cam Ward down and dead to rights in his crease from a few feet away, no one in his vicinity ... and shot wide.
Nothing else to it. He stood at the Point and missed the Ohio.
Yeah, there's that score again. This Saturday night brought nothing new, not in that regard, nor in so many others. That's four regulation losses in a row, all under the new coach, Mike Sullivan. That's nine losses in the past 11 games. That's six games in a row with 32 or more shots, and a whoop-dee-doo total of 10 goals to show for it. That's falling to the point of teetering a game above .500 at 15-14-3.
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