Connor Clifton, an unspectacularly mobile member of the Bruins' blue line, picked up the puck in the Boston zone, skated a stride forward ... then another ... then another until he'd collected enough momentum to split through Rickard Rakell and Evgeni Malkin at center red, then pace onward into the Pittsburgh zone.
It's in the image just above, from the third period Tuesday night at PPG Paints Arena.
This one's from overtime:
Right. Hampus Lindholm, another defenseman, similarly lugged the puck from Stanwix to Smithfield to Grant, and his path was so unimpeded, even by three-on-three standards, that the trajectory was a straight line worthy of Liberty.