Penguins

Kovacevic: Why you don’t mess with the core

Kris Letang couldn't shake my hand.

I extended my right hand to thank the man for his patience in answering a few questions after the Penguins' 6-2 carving of the Ducks tonight at Consol, and he offered back his left hand, awkwardly inverted over mine to try to make it work.

To which I had to ask: Really?

"Really," he replied. "It's OK. All I've got to do with it is play hockey."

Yeah, just that. Which is to say, all he's got to do with that right hand is fire a bullet 55 feet to Chris Kunitz's waiting screen and tip:

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