Nick Bjugstad insisted that neither he nor his teammates were scoreboard watching Saturday night. With the Penguins knotted at three late in third period, the center said his focus was solely on the task at hand: Namely, the New York Rangers. It certainly was not on that other New York team, the Islanders, who ended up beating the Capitals down in D.C. And, he says, he was blissfully unaware of what the Hurricanes were doing across the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Philadelphia.
For the sake of the soon-to-be new father's blood pressure, that was probably a good thing.
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