Penguins

Kovacevic: Making playoffs? Easy as tic-tac-toe

NEW YORK -- So there's this one thoroughly scripted play that Conor Sheary and Tom Kuhnhackl absolutely love.

There's also one problem with the play.

"Never works," Kuhnhackl was telling me in a Madison Square Garden corridor Sunday after the Penguins beat the Rangers, 5-3. "Maybe in practice. Once in a while. Never in a game."

Not in the AHL, where Sheary and Kuhnhackl were teammates over parts of three seasons.

Not in the NHL, either.

At least not until this ...

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Oh, my. That actually happened.

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