The Narrative: Stayin’ Alive, P.K. Super, and Depth Charge

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images 1. Stayin’ Alive

For the first ten minutes or so of Tuesday night’s Game 4 between the Caps and Isles, everything looked more or less as it had for much of the 185 or so minutes that preceded it.

And then... it didn’t.

The Caps were dominated in possession right off the bat (six minutes into the game, shot attempts were 16-1 in New York’s favor), took a penalty in the game’s first minute (Brenden Dillon has never met a penalty he wouldn’t take) and found themselves down 2-0 before the first period was half over.

But then... something changed. Was it something Todd Reirden said during his timeout? The sudden realization that they were less than 24 hours away from…