PITTSBURGH — Tyler Johnson turned toward the net, wary of taking another shot to his already battered face.
The puck off Jason Garrison’s stick found him anyway, and this time he didn’t even feel it. He was too busy celebrating lifting the Tampa Bay Lightning to a win away from a return trip to the Stanley Cup Finals.
Garrison’s wrister smacked off Johnson’s back and into the Pittsburgh Penguins net 53 seconds into overtime on Sunday night, giving the Lightning a 4-3 victory and a 3-2 lead in the Eastern Conference best-of-seven series.