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If the Penguins-Boston Bruins game Monday night were a measuring-stick game, the Penguins are in a lot of trouble. They were beaten, 3-1, in their building and the game didn't feel that close. Clearly, they don't measure up.

I refuse to go there this morning.

But the Penguins?

I'm not so sure.

To say they took this loss hard and personally would be an understatement.

"Obviously, it's one game in December," winger Pascal Dupuis said. "But at the same time, they were much better than us."

Also straying from the it's-just-one-game theme was defenseman Brooks Orpik.

"I don't think anyone in here is happy with their effort," he said. "It's one of the games you have marked on the schedule. It's disappointing that we kind of laid an egg."

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