MINNEAPOLIS — Christian Sarlo came out of the box, grabbed the puck along the boards after a teammate passed it up the ice and he patiently held the puck in the right circle until Jackson LaCombe fell to the ice, giving Sarlo all the space in the world to find the back of the net after Justen Close tried to cut the angle at the top of the crease.
The goal occurred with 5.8 seconds left in the middle frame that gave the Penn State Littany Lions a 2-1 lead heading into the third period. But it also proved to be the moment the No.