CALGARY, Alberta -- Rule of thumb: When Patric Hornqvist isn't scoring, it's everyone else's fault.
Rule of other thumb: When Hornqvist isn't scoring, fix that, and all else gets fixed.
"Ha!" he boomed when I brought up both theories late Thursday night, this after he scored twice in the Penguins' 9-1 annihilation of the Flames and, oh, yeah, all else appears fixed. "I don't know about that. If I'm not scoring, I've got to be better, too. But ..."
But?
"But no, there weren't a lot of pucks."
Nope. Not through those mostly mopey first five games. No pucks, and pretty much just the one lonely body waiting and waiting. Which explains not only how Hornqvist had zero goals on just a dozen shots but also, if we're being honest, it underscored why the collective hadn't come close to establishing any identity.
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