The best thing about the playoffs in hockey is the sheer unpredictability of the sport, where just about anyone could end up as the hero for a night.
For the Penguins, even about a month about Louis Domingue taking a starring role (if only for a night) would have been way low on the list of candidates.
Sure, the journeyman goalie played a couple of NHL games this season — and did well in them too. But it’s one thing to stop some shots against San Jose in January, it’s something very different to be thrust into a game in the middle of double overtime of a playoff game.