TAMPA, Fla. -- Jared McCann's a quality hockey player. A character kid, too.
So when I'd sat next to him in the visitors' locker room late Thursday night at Amalie Arena, asking him about all that'd just gone awry in the Penguins' 4-2 loss to the Lightning, it required not the slightest prompt for him to point the finger squarely at himself.
"I've got to be better," he'd tell me. "I wasn't good enough, and that's on me. This is on me."
Which, of course, was ludicrous.
This was on the NHL's best, deepest, hottest team.