Pittsburgh has now lost eight of its 10 games since the holiday break and has fallen to seventh in the wild card race

Pittsburgh, PA - In a matchup that carried heavy implications for two teams desperate for points, the Pittsburgh Penguins hosted the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday night at PPG Paints Arena. It was the first of two encounters between the two teams in an 11-day stretch,

On Tuesday night, we saw the Seattle Kraken match up with the Pittsburgh Penguins for the first time this season. This was an interconference matchup, but a somewhat interesting one, considering both teams underperformed in the first half of the season and are looking to turn it around in the back half.

After two periods of dominance against the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday night, the struggling Pittsburgh Penguins crumbled in the third period en route to a costly 4-2 defeat that capped a maddening homestand in which they won just once in five attempts.

The Pittsburgh Penguins’ 4-2 loss against the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday at PPG Paints Arena was a fitting conclusion to a dreadful five-game homestand that saw them go 1-3-1. This sequence of games on their own rink commanded considerable gravity.