Inexcuseable

Now more than a day later, the NHL still has not corrected the final stat sheet from Yesterday's 6-5 loss at the Islanders. While the on-ice player numbers have finally been added to the game summary, the Event summary shows the plus/minus without the Pens 5th goal taken into account, as the Game summary had shown "data pending" well into today, finally being shifted over past noon.

All of the major outlets for hockey stats, ESPN, tsn.ca, sportsnet.ca, Fox, HockeyDB, Canoe and others published their stats based on the errant score sheet from yesterday. Only the NHL has finally cared to correct their stats late this afternoon, as evidenced by Sidney Crosby showing as +14, where he was +15 going into the game yesterday. The other media have him as +13.

The sheer math of the game - on for 3 Even strength goals for, on for 4 even strength goals against equals -1, not -2. Yet the event summary still shows -2.

What an end to an unlikely streak. 14-0-2 had to end at some point, but the irony of the Isles snapping it on a weak goal with 26.8 seconds left, after Sidney Crosby had put on a clinic in the Isles end, only to have DiPietro make the key saves, where Fluery could not. The Pens are still 4th in the east, 73 points on the strentgh of 32-18-4-5 (W-L-OTL-SOL), but the race is so close that nothing is guaranteed. The Pens need to go back on a new streak to separate themselves from the pack, and can ill-afford to let any more of these games-in-had get away from them.