If you dwell on it too long, you end up in the loony bin. Being able to sustain itself through tough, tight games is the key for any team that hopes to live through the marathon known as the playoffs. Character and depth are parallel priorities in the postseason as well as in sudden death, making for dramatic endings. We were running on fumes. In the heat of the moment, you realize what is at stake, but you don't have time to be nervous.
Guys try to conserve as much energy as possible.
Pronger certainly needed to in Game 3. Overtime can take a player past the point of exhaustion. It's about getting your second wind, your fourth wind, your sixth wind. And, then, one team gets the wind knocked out of it. The Penguins had won the first two games of the series.