Wake Up Call for Penguins? Senators stifle Penguins 5-on-5

Penguins have been "too" content?

Head coach Dan Bylsma has refuted any notion that the Penguins have been "too" content heading into the playoffs, pointing to the Penguins recording 101 pts in the regular season.

The continuous talk for the past couple months of the Penguins "turning the switch on" once the playoffs start, didn't happen Wednesday night and since Pittsburgh's 9-1 start in October, the Penguins play has been nothing to get excited about.

Friday night will now tell the story if game 1 was a wakeup call for the Penguins. A focus for the Penguins is now turning towards creating more scoring chances 5-on-5.

The Penguins scored two even strength goals in game 1 but the Senators stifled the Penguins in 5-on-5 play and limited their chances.

Pittsburgh failed to get pucks behind the Senators defense and establish an effective fore-check. Prior to game 1, it was something a number of players talked about the Penguins needing to do if they wanted to be successful against the Senators group of top-4 defensemen.

It's not a good sign that the players had to be reminded of that once again by Dan Bylsma in his post-game comments Wednesday night.

The Senators blocked 18 shots, led by defenseman Andy Sutton who led the Senators with 4 blocked shots.