PITTSBURGH — They don’t ask how. They don’t even ask how many.
All they ask is the score.
Maybe that’s the way the Pittsburgh Penguins should look at their 4-3 win against the Nashville Predators in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final.
This one wasn’t pretty. After taking a 3-0 lead in the first period, the Penguins went 36 minutes and 43 seconds without a shot on net. And then, with 3:17 remaining in the third period, Jake Guentzel scored the winner on just the seventh shot of the game.
Opportunistic does not begin to describe it.