Penguins

Column: Packing up Penguins’ plus-minus

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“Ugh,” Brandon Sutter was saying, or something that sounded suspiciously like that. “Nothing there. Just nothing. Maybe the first 10 minutes.”

Steve Downie can’t get the puck past the Canucks’ Ryan Miller. — GETTY

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- "Ugh," Brandon Sutter was saying, or something that sounded suspiciously like that. "Nothing there. Just nothing. Maybe the first 10 minutes."

Yeah, maybe not even that.

Canucks 5, Penguins 0.

And it wasn't anywhere near that close.

 

The visitors looked fatigued, frustrated and -- let's face it -- they played lousy on top of all that. It made for one seriously flat finish to a Western Canada trip that opened Wednesday with a take-care-of-business shutout of the awful Oilers and peaked Friday with a full-throttle shutout of the contending Flames.

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