from Bruce Arthur of the Toronto Star,

It’s not about P.K. Subban’s breath, but OK, fine. After Nashville’s 5-1 win in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup final Subban started barking at Pittsburgh’s Jake Guentzel, and then swam by him to bark at Sidney Crosby, with whom the Predators defenceman has had a series of annoyance-based scrapes over the years. He pulled Crosby by the jersey to get extra barking time, and Crosby barked back. Subban told the media that Crosby told him he had bad breath, and then told the media on Sunday his teammates left Listerine in his locker. Oh, P.K.

I was there when he said it on Saturday night, and it was clear to me that P.K, bless him, was trafficking in his usual earnest b.s., but it was his explanation. On Sunday, Crosby was asked about it, because that’s how this works.

“Yeah, he made that up. I didn’t say that,” said Crosby. Asked about his on-ice history with P.K., Crosby said, “Yeah, that’s part of it. He likes the attention, and things like that. If he wants to make stuff up, what can I do?”

And that was that. Subban loves making things about himself, which makes him more entertaining than more or less any other hockey player, though your mileage may vary. And it was a silly sideline to a series that Pittsburgh leads two games to one, and feels like it may belong to Nashville.

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