For four excruciating minutes of overtime Sunday night, the Penguins' most skilled forwards were relegated to the same status as the standing, roaring 18,620 citizens surrounding them at Consol Energy Center.
"We were fans," Sidney Crosby was telling me a lot later. "Oh, man, we were fired up."
"Same here," David Perron chimed in from the next stall. "We couldn't wait to get out there."
It sure didn't look like they would, did it?
It was early in overtime, and Patric Hornqvist drew blood on a high-sticking double-minor against the Sharks' Brent Burns. The two had been battling along the boards, the blade came up, and enough blood emerged to draw the call. Hornqvist blew it and knew it: "I went right to the box."
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