Dan Muse isn’t a carbon copy of his predecessor as coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Mike Sullivan. But similarities do exist. Both hail from Boston, and both speak with accents rooted in the Bay State.

The scattered and somewhat muted play in the first period ended at the horn. The Penguins were given the short end of a pair of unexplicably bad calls, including an overturned goal on goaltender contact which replayed seemed to show was largely initiated by Minnesota defenseman Jake Middleton.

The Pittsburgh Penguins are looking to win their third game in a row on Thursday and start the season with a 5-2-0 record.

At 12:02 of the first period, Schaefer became the youngest player in NHL history to record a point in his NHL debut. He sent a seeing-eye pass from the left wall to free-agent signee Jonathan Drouin in the slot, and Drouin beat Tristan Jarry (34 saves) up high to tie it at 1-1.