Poking into the Penguins’ Desultory Season
This isn’t so much an article as me poking into some things regarding our Penguins that piqued my curiosity. I thought I’d share my findings with our PenguinPoop readers.
It’s been mentioned numerous times during the team’s telecasts that we’re one of the best second-period clubs in the league and one of the worst in the third period, but I’d never seen the hard numbers. So I decided to track our goals for and against by period to see how we stacked up.
Stats are courtesy of NHL.com. An asterisk indicates a tie in the rankings.
Period
Goals For
Goals Against
Diff
GF Rank
GA Rank
1st
62
72
-10
18*
21*
2nd
90
71
19
9*
9*
3rd
78
90
-12
20
24
OT
8
9
-1
4
27*
As advertised, the Pens are, indeed, one of the better second-period teams in the NHL.