Pens shit the bed in Buffalo and fall 6-2

If you would have told me that the Pens got two of the four points available in back to back weekends on Friday, I would have been pretty pleased.  However, after beating Philadelphia on the road, I really thought the Pens would handle a pretty poor Buffalo team and take a four point weekend.  Soft play in net by Johnson, and on the ice by the Penguins defense, especially Paul Martin left two very attainable points on the ice up in Buffalo.  The Penguins blew an opportunity to overtake Philadelphia for fourth in the conference.  There is not much to say here.  The bleeding starting just 52 seconds in, as Johnson gave up a goal on the first shot, and very quickly it was 2-0, and the Penguins had lost the chance for a good start.  At one point it was 3-2, and it looked like the Pens had the chance to steal two points that they did  not deserve, but that was before giving up three more unanswered goals.  Somewhere in there Engelland got his third of the year, from Malkin (39), and Jordan Staal got a power play goal (19), assisted by James Neal (27) and Steve Sullivan (18).  Not much to say on the positive side today.  Johnson is horrid this year, causing Fleury to have to appear in all but 9 of the team's 59 games thus far.  Johnson's issues this season will lead to Fleury burnout in the playoffs.  I think it is time that they look to make a move there.  The entire defense today sucked for the most part, with Kris Letang even going -4 due to sloppy puck handling, but the Paul Martin debacle is at the ludicrous level right now.  Trading him for ANYTHING right now would be addition by subtraction as the Pens could use the 5M in cap space he is wasting to bring in somebody to contribute to the team.  Martin and Michalek, the 9M "shutdown pairing" is now a collective -21, with Martin at -11 and Michalk at -10.  Listen, the Penguins gave up 10 goals in two weekend games, and lost a chance to pick up some ground in the playoff race.  They now come home to face the Rangers Tuesday night at the CEC, and then another set of back to back matinees next weekend with Tampa Bay and Columbus.  Time to pick up some ground in the conference.  I hope by Tuesday that the Pens are lucky enought to have moved Martin, and somehow pick up a physical defenseman like Bryan Allen.  Go Pens!