"Backs against the wall. That's what you've got to do."
One would think that statement, spoken soon after the Penguins' 4-1 flat-lined failure against the Jets on this Tuesday night at PPG Paints Arena, would have come from someone on the home side. You know, the side that's missing Evgeni Malkin, Nick Bjugstad, Bryan Rust and now Patric Hornqvist. The side that's sorely lacking any semblance of a collective identity, both in roster composition and in performance.
Nope. Came from a Winnipeg executive. Clearly because someone on that side grasped the concept of adjusting to adversity.