So no, there will not be nine consecutive games of goal free playoff hockey from Sidney Crosby, thank you very much -- and you probably don’t much care that the Captain waited until overtime of Game 2 against the Tampa Bay Lightning to sidestep his own swelling ignominy and yank the franchise from the edge of a 2-0 sinkhole on which it surely tottered.
Instead, all of that inverted in a flash of Crosby’s blade, with the game-winner he flicked to the upper reaches of the Lightning net, with the goal that tied the series at one game apiece as it packs up for Florida and Game 3 Wednesday.