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Pettersson shoulders blame for OT loss: 'It's on me'

NEWARK, N.J. -- "It's on me."

For a brief moment on Sunday, Marcus Pettersson thought he had scored the game-winner. He hopped off the bench, joining Bryan Rust and Jason Zucker in the Penguins' rush up ice. Rust fed Pettersson a cross-ice pass, and Pettersson buried it with a wrist shot that beat Devils goaltender Vitek Vanecek.

The problem: The defenseman Pettersson was replacing, Jeff Petry, wasn't even close to being off the ice yet:

Officials immediately called too many men, waiving off the goal and putting the Penguins on a penalty-kill.