Miles Wood and Tomas Tatar just could not believe what they were hearing.
Here they were, sitting with one New Jersey’s own, Ross Colton, and one of the Garden State’s native sons did not know about the Pulaski Highway. Wood and Tatar peppered Colton with questions and chirps while the three of them removed their equipment after a morning skate in Pittsburgh last month.
If it wasn’t all just good-natured needling of one of their teammates, the shock and utter disappointment in their voices would have seemed quite sincere.
“We were teasing him,” Tatar said. “We thought as a (New Jersey) homeboy, he should probably know that.