BOSTON -- Brian Dumoulin was awesome.
It feels wholly fair to open with that on this Wednesday night with the rest of the Penguins' defensemen exposed, one excruciating stumble after another, in a 5-1 blowout at the hands of the Bruins at TD Garden. Because especially in that setting, he stood out all the more.
No, really, bear with me here a minute. I'll get to the burying in a minute.
"He's a good player," Mike Sullivan was telling me afterward, in regard to Dumoulin. It doesn't sound like effusive praise in print, but trust me, the intonation was special. "We've asked him to do so much, and he's gone out there and done the job."
Yeah, he has. And rather than go on about a player so valuable to the Penguins it's an absolute afterthought that he's yet to score, let's rewind to the first period.
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