That was some demonstration of civic love and anticipation outside the Consol Energy Center and blocks in any direction you staged Thursday night — tens of thousands of fans flooding the streets, gathering around big screens, ready to celebrate the Penguins’ Stanley Cup.
But the San Jose Sharks evidently didn’t get the memo.
The Californians showed an annoying lack of understanding of the script, a total disregard for the spirit of the thing.
Sometime between crawling out California down 3-1 in games and suiting for Game 5 in decidedly enemy territory, the Sharks must have figured out that it would be interesting to see what happened if they scored the first goal.