It’s not like Jim Rutherford required a reminder when it came to one of the items on his offseason to-do list, but the Penguins general manager got it anyway during Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final on Monday.
Vegas’ fourth line stole the show — and what a show it was — by accounting for half of the Golden Knights’ goals in a 6-4 victory over the Washington Capitals at T-Mobile Arena, including one by ex-Penguin Ryan Reaves and two from Tomas Nosek.
Getting scoring from the fourth line was one of the things that made the Penguins’ Stanley Cup-winning teams of 2016 and 2017 so special.