Column: Five ideas to propel Penguins

David Perron somehow shoots wide after dekeing his way around the Blackhawks’ Corey Crawford. — GETTY

The big idea, ever since Mario Lemieux and Ron Burkle turned the Penguins upside down last summer and shook out all the remnants of playoffs past, has been to change the season’s final chapter. Not the introduction. Not all the various and sundry storylines in between. Just that part at the end where someone somewhere outside Pittsburgh picks up the Stanley Cup.

So it probably shouldn’t matter as much as it feels like it does that David Perron, with “the game on my stick” late in the third period Wednesday at Consol Energy Center, stunningly slipped it wide of a gaping net after stickhandling around Corey Crawford, the Blackhawks’ badly beaten goaltender.

“I’ve got to put that away,” Perron would say afterward. “Maybe 8 times out of 10, I put that away.”

I was thinking 11 times out of 10, but let’s go with his math.