LAS VEGAS – The glimmering lights and ever-present cha-ching of slot machines can make Las Vegas as disorienting as it is intoxicating. Walking around the windowless casinos, it’s easy to find yourself asking what time is it? What day is it? And, when can we go home?
As the Penguins arrived in Sin City at the tail end of a 12-day, six-game bender of a road trip, the feeling was similar.
A team that ran its win streak to an NHL-best 10 games during leg one on Jan. 6 in Philadelphia looked like a completely different club in its road whites. Entering Monday night, the Penguins had played six of their worst periods of the season consecutively. Things came undone during a lopsided loss in Los Angeles last Thursday and the process didn’t appear any better during an overtime win in San Jose that goalie Louis Domingue almost single handedly stole.
