Grind: Where there's a want-to, there's a way

Had these Penguins not battled all the way back to beat the Bruins, 5-4, on Tommy Novak’s burial 17 seconds into overtime on this Sunday evening at PPG Paints Arena, they’d have been embarking on a five-game, cross-continent, all-contending-opponents trip on a four-game slide, with their Stanley Cup playoff spot in peril, without a sense for Sidney Crosby’s status, with Evgeni Malkin still suspended, and … yeah.