WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Marcus Pettersson sensed that Kris Letang might be in some trouble.
So by the time Letang, back below the Pittsburgh goal line, had picked up his chin to see an oncoming forechecker, he'd already heard Pettersson's shout from the other side of the net: 'YEAH!' And he simply banked the beginning of a smooth, team-wide breakout off the end boards, onto Pettersson's waiting blade and right up ice.
"It's working together," Pettersson would explain to me later. "It's being there for each other."
It's a 32-save Tristan Jarry shutout.