EDMONTON, Alberta -- Kris Letang had a choice.
Check that: He used to have a choice. Now, it's been decided in advance.
It was the third period of the Penguins' thorough 2-0 shutout of the Oilers on Thursday night at Rexall Place, and that two-goal lead was being protected when Edmonton's Oscar Klefbom pushed up ice on a possible break. And every instinct of nearly every defenseman at every level of hockey in that precise situation is to backpedal. Glide back, get the stick out, survey the scene for others joining the rush.
So just for fun, as the visitors were hurriedly packing their bags for the brief flight south to Calgary ahead of the foot of snow expected here overnight, I posed this question to the increasingly great No. 58: What would the Letang of last season had done?
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