It’s always been hockey custom for goaltenders to keep a water bottle within arm’s reach. On Tuesday at PPG Paints Arena, the Penguins may want to try something new and affix a box of Kleenex to the visiting net.
It may also help if they concoct some sort of tissue-themed giveaway.
Good luck finding one non-emotional soul among the 18,000-plus who will be in attendance, as Marc-Andre Fleury makes his much-awaited return to Pittsburgh, Fleury chief among them.
Fleury hopes to keep it together, yet he’s fully aware that at the first TV timeout, that’s going to really, really hard to do, harder than any of the 17,774 saves he made while wearing a Penguins sweater.