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.