“I’d agree with that,” said Mike Rupp, a former Penguins player that now works as an analyst for NHL Network. The Athletic’s latest model still has them at a 62 percent chance to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs as of Monday. Earning only one point from a seven-game stretch doesn’t doom the Penguins’ league-best 16-year postseason streak. One thing doesn’t necessarily dictate another thing will happen. The Penguins haven’t experienced a winless streak this long since 2005-06 - Crosby’s rookie season and the last time the Penguins missed the playoffs. It’s also apparently jarring for anybody other than him. “It’s tough, it’s difficult,” Crosby said Saturday night. The previous night, after a 3-2 home loss to the Kraken that continued a worrisome couple of weeks in which the Penguins have gone 0-6-1 and fallen toward the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings, Crosby acknowledged his club was up against it. Neither Crosby nor his teammates would share when asked, though the captain’s message seemed designed to keep things loose around a club clearly feeling the pressure of a seven-game winless streak. The unmistakable voice belonged to Sidney Crosby, whose next words were privy only to those on the ice with him - and whatever was said on that sheet of ice stayed on that sheet of ice. As a few players broke away from the group, one prominent Penguin yelled, “Guys, hold up!”
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