WINNIPEG — Dustin Byfuglien did not want to speak to reporters Tuesday. But the NHL media policy required him to be available, so the Winnipeg Jets’ staff pulled him out of the dressing room. He stood in front of a Stanley Cup playoffs curtain, back against the wall, surrounded by notebooks and recorders and cameras, and pulled a Marshawn Lynch act.
“As long as we stick together as a team,” he said, “we’ll be all right.”
That, or something close to it, was his answer to every question – from what happened with the Anaheim Ducks’ Corey Perry on Monday night to whether playing defense was different from playing forward in the playoffs.