I thought we had this one. I really did. Not just when Evgeni Malkin beat Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky with a Lemieux-esque, sharp-angle shot from the goal line to tie the game at 2-all with 41.5 seconds left. But also when goalie Alex Nedeljkovic sprawled to the ice to poke the puck off Brandon Montour’s stick as the Panthers’ defender flew in on a breakaway with roughly 1:45 left in overtime.
Heck, even in the shootout we appeared to be destiny’s child when Bobrovsky thwarted Jake Guentzel, only have the puck magically squirt out of his glove and flutter into the net.