At midday Thursday in Cranberry, inside the fabulous Lemieux Center For Undisclosed Injuries, the hard work the Penguins do in the playoffs continued apace; the never-quite-adequate time between Game 1 and Game 2 of their first-round assignment consumed with planning and practice and brainstorming for a widely anticipated Philadelphia counter-attack.
No wonder then, that inside the dressing room of the defending Stanley Cup champions, the big television in the wall near the entrance would reflect the looming urgency of hockey’s wondrous postseason. With the NHL playoffs on TV every night as far as the eye can see, and with their highlights and accompanying analysis on an endless broadcast loop, head coach Mike Sullivan had just dismissed his Penguins from the ice so they could watch .