PITTSBURGH — Penguins goalie Tristan Jarry scooped the puck with time winding down in the second period and flicked it, dangerously, through the center of the ice.
An audible gasp swept through PPG Paints Arena. Surely many felt flashbacks to last postseason when an eerily similar stickhandling blunder cost Pittsburgh.
But that brief mishap? It was an outlier on Sunday during game in which the Penguins No. 1 netminder stood tall against the Carolina Hurricanes, the Eastern Conference’s leader in the standings.