The smile on Eddie Johnston’s face said it all.
Early in the second period of Saturday’s 4-1 win over the Red Wings, the Penguins had finished a two-minute power play that didn’t produce a goal but one that was highly entertaining nonetheless, Harlem Globetrotters-type stuff only this group can do, the puck whipping around the ice, chances galore.
“Look at that power play, the movement on that,” Johnston, the Penguins’ patriarch, beamed from his PPG Paints Arena press box seat. “They had the puck the whole time. And they didn’t just have one guy hold it. They moved it around.