ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Few teams have had the luxury of playing a Norris Trophy winner on their second defensive pairing, and fewer still have seen a player of that caliber accept the role readily.
But such is the case with the Nashville Predators and P.K. Subban, 27, who won the Norris as the league's top defenseman in 2013 and was a finalist for the award in 2015.
In overtime of Game 1 of the Western Conference finals against the Anaheim Ducks, Subban's savvy slapshot fake weakened the Ducks' defensive structure before he deftly reversed the puck to winger James Neal.