"Emotional," Kris Letang called this tumultuous Tuesday night at PPG Paints Arena, one in which he'd returned from a monthlong absence due to injury and, tragically, his father's passing in Quebec, only to immediately put forth four points and hammer home an overtime blast, then to break up multiple times afterward.
The term 'emotional' gets tossed around a lot in sports. This usage qualified as quite the understatement.
This is 'emotional' in the sporting sense, ending the Penguins' 7-6 victory over the Panthers:
And this is 'emotional' in an emphatic, life-based context, captured in a superb still by Getty photographer Justin Berl:
