It was 11:14 p.m. The fluorescent lights were about to flicker out inside the home locker room at Consol. Pascal Dupuis was among a handful of stragglers, still seated at his stall and soaking wet, right down to the curled-up socks he'd just pried out from his skates.

“This,” the man was telling me through the softest, most satisfied of gap-toothed smiles, “this is why I stayed.”

I'll fess up right here: I think the world of Pascal Dupuis, as a human and an athlete. He's been a pleasure to cover, a delight to know for a few years now.

But I've never seen a moment that more sweetly summarized who and what he stands for than this one Wednesday night.

For one …
“We just beat Boston. And that's a team we really don't like.” ..............

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