COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Just doesn't sink in, does it?
I've had a full day to process it. Even spent part of that Wednesday watching the Penguins skate inside an empty Nationwide Arena, laughing when Patric Hornqvist playfully push a net from one end of the rink to the other, witnessing a Brandon Tanev goal for the first time in forever, discussing with Brian Dumoulin what'd been missing from the D-zone breakouts ... and pondering how all that'd be very little different from, you know, watching the Penguins and Blue Jackets play an actual NHL game in that same setting the next night.