Pressure Plate, Pen Flinger Interaction

Is this interaction intended or a bug? Pen flinger is the only minion on enemy board, enemy casts spell, pressure plate procs and gives animation of destroying pen flinger, but the pen flinger still goes back in opponents hand.

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Effects in Hearthstone are queued. The next effect usually happens only after the current one finished.

You cast a spell. Pen Flinger’s effect triggers.
Pressure Plate triggers and hits Pen Flinger setting its health to below 0, marking it for death.
Pen Flinger’s effect completes and returns to your hand.
Death Processing Phase checks for marked for death minions and finds none, since Pen Flinger is no longer on the board.