“I’m not sure I can assess it,” said Penguins coach Mike Sullivan, when asked about his team’s incendiary 8-7 overtime triumph over Washington last night before an amped-up capacity crowd at PPG Paints Arena.
That’s okay, Mike. I’m not sure I can describe it, either. Except to say that in my 40-plus years of watching Penguins hockey, I’ve never seen anything like it.
I’ve witnessed some wild ones, too. The 10-7 victory over Philadelphia in the 1989 playoffs, when Mario Lemieux scored five goals (and Flyers goalie Ron Hextall tried to kill Rob Brown) immediately comes to mind.