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PITTSBURGH -- Sidney Crosby won the opening faceoff Monday night to start Game 2 and, shortly thereafter, managed a shot on goal.Unfortunately, that was the high point of the first period for the Pittsburgh Penguins, who played their worst period of the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs -- perhaps their worst period of the entire season -- in allowing four goals in the first 20 minutes and trailing by three scores.The only other time Pittsburgh allowed four goals in a period was March 7, when they allowed the Philadelphia Flyers to score four in the first before rallying for a 5-4 victory.There would be no comeback on this night, however, not even for a normally prolific Pittsburgh offense as the Boston Bruins strangled the life out of the game, as well as the crowd at Consol Energy Center en route to a 6-1 victory that delivered the visitors a commanding 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference Final.No team has come back from 0-2 down a conference finals series since 1991 when the Penguins accomplished the feat against the Bruins.In large part, Pittsburgh will have to climb that same hill in this best-of-7 series because of a disastrous first period of titanic proportions.Unlike Game 1 when Pittsburgh got to its game early before being stung on the counter attack, Monday was all Boston in the first.Less than 30 seconds after Crosby won the initial faceoff,Authentic Brent Seabrook Jersey, Boston was up 1-0 on a breakaway goal by Brad Marchand that was set up by a Crosby giveaway at the attacking blue line when he mishit a bouncing puck along the blue line and right into the path of Marchand, who beat Tomas Vokoun with a high shot at the 28-second mark."I turn that puck over there 30 seconds in and they get up 1-0 and I felt like we tried to get it back and might have took some chances to do that," Crosby said. "We started chasing when we got down a couple and once you start doing that against a good hockey team, you put yourself in some bad positions."It was the first of six giveaways Pittsburgh would offer up in the first 20 minutes.The Penguins tried to stabilize after that early dagger, but they couldn't gain entry into the Boston zone regularly. When they did, they could not get to the cycle nor disrupt the ease with which Boston exited its own zone.After winning the first two faceoffs of the game,Brian Campbell Authentic Jersey, Pittsburgh won just four of the final 14 contested in the period, further stymying efforts to gain possession.Pittsburgh's second shot of the period didn't come until after the nine-minute mark of the period had passed. Rarely when giving the opportunity to generate offense did Pittsburgh oblige. The Pens missed the net on three shots and had eight others blocked."We've gotten away from our game," Pittsburgh coach Dan Bylsma said. "We've gotten off our game plan. We've deviated. We get down early today again and not too far after the second goal, we get off kilter and deviate again from how we can play and what we need to do.