The Pittsburgh Penguins suffered a 5-4 overtime loss on the road to the New York Islanders on Tuesday.
Pittsburgh was playing the Islanders in a pivotal game for the Metro division, and the Penguins led 3-2 and 4-3, but New York rallied to force overtime. In overtime, Bo Horvat scored the winner, which was a disappointing loss for Pittsburgh.
“We’re at the point of the season (where) we need that other point,” Penguins coach Dan Muse said postgame on Tuesday. “Especially against these guys, where things are in the standings. So, you walk away disappointed. Obviously, at the end, it wasn’t quite enough. But the process, I thought our overall game was better.”
The Islanders are now one point back of the Penguins for second place in the Metro division, showing how important that extra point was for Pittsburgh.
“It was a back-and-forth battle,” Rust said. “I thought we fought through some adversity out there. Overall, I thought we were decent. Obviously, we’d like to clean up a few things. We definitely would have liked to have that extra point.”
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With the loss, the Penguins fell to 28-15-12. Pittsburgh will return to the ice on Thursday on the road against the Buffalo Sabres in the Penguins’ final game before the Olympic break.
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