It's never a good sign when things continue to break. Windows, lawn equipment or your hand. Doesn't matter. Bad all the way around.
Which is the scenario that Penguins defenseman Brian Dumoulin encountered this past postseason.
After taking a David Savard slapshot off the hand with about eight minutes to go in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals against Columbus, Dumoulin’s right hand was damaged.
Severely. Repeatedly. Irreparably. At least for the time being.
"It was hurting pretty bad," Dumoulin said Monday afternoon while reflecting on the six-year, $24.6 million contract extension he signed in the morning, his hand somehow still attached to his 6-foot-4, 207-pound frame.