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PITTSBURGH - In less than 24 hours, Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik has gone from being a hard-working, but nondescript player to local folk hero. His shift – which is now referred to, not surprisingly, as ‘The Shift’ – in the third period, in which he registered five significant hits (OK, the last one was a bit of a softy, but his legs were probably spent by then) was the talk of the day at the media availability Thursday morning. The soft-spoken and deadly serious Orpik took things in stride. “It’s weird, against a team like this, you’ve got to be pretty patient,” Orpik said. “Their forwards have so much skill and speed, you don’t want to run out of position, especially with the system we play. Most of the hitting comes from our defensemen in our zone. We don’t take a lot of chances in the neutral zone and most... [read full story]
