The kids' first NHL points the highlight as Penguins lose 5-4 to Blues in overtime

The Penguins put up quite a fight in this one against a team coming into it on a ten-game winning streak. The Penguins fought back from a 4-2 deficit in the third to tie it up late as rookie Rutger McGroarty took a feed from Ville Koivunen and beat Joel Hofer to tie the game at 4 with 23 seconds left. But that was not enough as Kris Letang's penalty in overtime proved costly in a 5-4 loss at Enterprise Center.

First Period

The Penguins got this one started early in the period as Bryan Rust took a sweet pass from McGroarty and fought his way to the front of the net and went backhand to forehand and put the puck in the vacated net and it was a 1-0 Penguins lead off a vintage Rust move.

That was the only scoring of the period and the Penguins took a 1-0 lead into the second period.

Second Period

This period is where the scoring really picked up as the Blues wasted no time on a goal from Robert Thomas at 39 seconds of the period tied the game at 1.

But minutes later Connor Dewar for the Penguins had the answer as he jammed home a rebound at the side of the net to make it 2-1 Penguins.

But the Blues were able to score twice 1:17 apart at the 6:48 mark and the 8:05 mark as Pavel Buchnevich and Jordan Kyrou beat Tristan Jarry and the Blues took a 3-2 lead going into the third period.

Third Period

The Blues added another goal as Jake Neighbours found the back of the net at the 5:56 mark of the period and suddenly it was 4-2 Blues.

But here come the Penguins. The Penguins got their only powerplay of the game late in the period as Rickard Rakell took a nice pass from Sidney Crosby and found the back of the net and it was 4-3 Blues.

But the Penguins had one last fight in them with Tristan Jarry on the bench, Koivunen fed McGroarty at the side of the net and he beat Hofer for a tie game and McGroarty had one hell of a celebration afterwards. What a moment for the kids. The Penguins have something special in both players.

McGroarty's first in the NHL sent this heavyweight battle to overtime tied at 4.

Overtime

Per usual, the Penguins do not have a ton of success in overtime or a shootout and the same fate happened here. Kris Letang took an awful and questionable slashing penalty at 1:28 of the overtime period and the Blues wasted no time.

Robert Thomas beat Jarry for the overtime winner at the 2:12 mark and they defeated the Penguins for their 11th straight victory and that was all she wrote from Enterprise Center.