Kris Letang – Pens fall to the Bolts 3-4 – Game Wrap

by Theresa · December 26, 2014

Good morning Kris Letang fans! Hope you had a great Christmas and holiday! Here is the short recap for the Lightning game:

The Penguins got on the board at 10:15 of the second period when Hornqvist put a wrist shot over Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy’s shoulder from the left faceoff circle.

“You don’t like to lose, but we definitely had a lot of things going against us,” Crosby said. “I think the guys competed hard … gave ourselves a chance to get back into the game. We made some mistakes, but we didn’t give up.”

Following Kunitz’s goal at 9:55 of the third period, Pittsburgh pulled to within a goal at 18:29 of the third period when Letang scored on a slap shot from the point after the Penguins had pulled Zatkoff for a 6-on-5 advantage.

“We don’t want to find excuses, obviously we have a good side,” Letang said. “They had good bounces and scored big goals. … They scored some big goals at key moments. But we hung in there and were one shot away from tying the game.” >Continue Reading<