So no, there will not be nine consecutive games of goal-free playoff hockey from Sidney Crosby after all, and you probably don’t much care that the Penguins captain waited until overtime of Game 2 against the Tampa Bay Lightning to sidestep his own swelling ignominy and yank his teammates from the edge of a 2-0 ditch on which they wobbled.
All that inverted in a flash of Crosby’s blade, with the game-winner he flicked to the upper reaches of the Lightning net, the goal that tied the series at 1-1 as it packs up for Florida and Game 3 Wednesday in Tampa.