Freeze Frame: Petry shows what not to do on controlled breakout taken at PPG Paints Arena (Penguins)

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Jeff Petry falls to the ice after pressure from Morgan Geekie of the Kraken on Saturday in Seattle.

Welcome to Freeze Frame -- our brand new quick-hitter analysis feature that we'll pump out after every game the Penguins play, with plans to do the same for Steelers and Pirates.

The goal of this feature isn't to go in-depth or even stress over the biggest or most impactful plays of any particular game but, rather, to highlight something specific from each event, typically an individual play or sequence, stat, or anything else along those lines. The door is open to have some fun with this.

The Penguins' defensemen have struggled mightily to efficiently or cohesively move the puck up ice for the majority of their current four-game losing streak, a trend that was no different during the 3-1 loss to the Kraken on Saturday night, as Taylor Haase covered.

I suppose that goes for the moments they didn't even try to move the puck up ice, as well. Here's Jeff Petry showing you what I mean on a controlled breakout during the third period:

That's ... wow.

The Penguins had Ryan Poehling and Danton Heinen swinging deep into the zone and curling up the wings while Marcus Pettersson slid back to the ice on Petry's left. Petry didn't like what he saw at first. And then he thought he liked what he saw for a second. And then he really didn't like what he saw.

The first error Petry made was not properly utilizing the net as a barrier between himself and Morgan Geekie, the Kraken skater closing in on him. Petry's idea here is that cheating to the right a little bit would allow him to get the puck off his stick in a cleaner fashion with more room to operate, unhindered by the net limiting his range of motion.

As Petry stood flat-footed and exposed, he simply never got the puck off his stick. There's a point, and it happens quickly, when going through your progressions here that you either need to get your own feet moving, or fling a 50/50 puck somewhere out of harm's way. But that didn't happen, and Petry allowed himself to get swarmed.

When it was already too late, Petry doubled-down on not moving the puck and put himself in a brutal spot behind his net trying to evade Geekie. Thanks to his size, Petry was able to recover as best he could before support came and high-tailed the puck out of there.

This is one of many dysfunctional moments from the Penguins' defense as of late. It's a play that simply can't happen while fighting for the tying goal late in the game.

Check out the first few Freeze Frame features:

Sidney Crosby flashes his vintage grinder on Rickard Rakell's goal

Sam Poulin rushes toward first NHL point

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