Home ice would have been nice. But when you win a Stanley Cup, you don’t quibble about whose surface you’re skating on while passing around the hallowed old urn.
The Pittsburgh Penguins, having wasted a bagful of chances to finish the Cup final in five games at Consol Energy Center on Thursday, closed out the San Jose Sharks here Sunday evening in yet a 3-1 nail-biter, to end a series in which neither team could conclusively bury the other.
Kris Letang’s bad angle goal in the second period, which restored the Pens’ lead 79 seconds after they had lost it, proved to be the winner.