CRANBERRY, Pa. -- No lines, no pairs. Only one puck.
Monday's half-hour long practice at the Lemieux Complex was five minutes or so of individual drills -- 2-on-1 rushes and such -- followed by 25 minutes of nothing but special teams. And that doesn't even count the video work that was done before anyone had even stepped on the ice.
It was neither punishment nor reaction, Mike Sullivan said, to Sunday night's dismal showing in the Penguins' 5-3 loss to the Blackhawks, but rather a chance to reinforce a few things, most of them mental more than physical.
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