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In Game Three of the Eastern Conference Final, the Pittsburgh Penguins found out the perils of falling into a 2-0 hole to the Boston Bruins, losing 2-1 in double overtime to Boston Wednesday and trailing the series by a nearly insurmountable three games to none. In a tremendous game, one of the best of the postseason, the Penguins outplayed the Bruins, outshooting them 54-40, but LW Chris Kunitz was the only Penguin that managed to get a puck past Bruins G Tuukka Rask, who has now allowed one goal or fewer in five of his last six starts. Rask now has a .940 save percentage this postseason, leaving him behind only the Kings Jonathan Quick (.941). While there were some questions raised about which goaltender would start Game Three for Pittsburgh, there was no doubt that Tomas Vokoun was the right decision. He stopped 38 of 40 shots in the game and has a .931 save percentage in the playoffs. Just as he was in Game Seven of the first round against Toronto, C Patrice Bergeron played the hero for the Bruins with the double overtime goal, redirecting a pass from LW Brad Marchand on a two-on-two counter-attack. Bostons first goal was tallied by C David Krejci, the playoff leader with nine goals and 21 points. Bergeron and Krejci had to handle a heavy workload as Bostons fourth-line C Gregory Campbell, suffered a broken leg and ended up playing only 6:51. With Campbell out, and the game going to double overtime, Krejci played 35:46 and Bergeron logged 31:59 to lead Bruins forwards. D Zdeno Chara led all skaters with 42:05 of ice time. Enforcer Shawn Thornton skated just 3:56 for Boston, unable to find the right fit with his centre, Campbell, injured. Among the faceoff leaders, Bergeron had a tough night on the draws, winning 13 of 35 (37.1%). Sidney Crosby (21 of 36, 55.3%) and Brandon Sutter (15 of 25, 60.0%) were best on the dot for Pittsburgh. Marchand was dangerous for the Bruins, tying D Johnny Boychuk with a team-high six shots on goal, while LW Milan Lucic registered a game-high eight hits. Even though he was stripped of the puck by Bruins RW Jaromir Jagr before the winning goal, and finished the game minus-2, Penguins C Evgeni Malkin was the most dangerous player on the ice, registering a game-high 10 shots on goal. D Kris Letang played more than 40 minutes and had eight shots on goal, while Penguins RW James Neal had seven shots on goal. Neal and Letang had the best puck possession numbers of the game for Pittsburgh, while D Torey Krug was tops for Boston. As great as Malkin was, he didnt manage a point and has been held off the scoresheet in five of the last six games. Sidney Crosby was also held scoreless and has been held without a points in four of the last six games. Coming into the series, Boston needed their one-two punch at centre -- Bergeron and Krejci -- to fare well in their matchup against Pittsburghs elite tandem and, so far, its no contest. If the Penguins are going to come back, theyll need their power play, which had scored 13 goals in 11 games through the first two series, to get on track. Through the first three games there has not been a power play goal scored in the series, with Pittsburgh 0-for-12 and Boston 0-for-10 with the man advantage. Down three games to none, the Penguins have to see the writing on the wall. Boston was the last team to relinquish a 3-0 series lead, in 2010 against Philadelphia, but its asking a lot for a team to win four straight against a Bruins team that is, right off the top, winning the matchup of goaltenders and centres. This is the fate that befalls a Penguins team that didnt play well in their first two games at home. 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His instincts were validated when the phone flashed the name of Alex Morin, a Boras Corporation associate who was calling with the news that Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez and two companions had been killed in a boating accident off the South Florida coast.In the darkness of the the early morning, Boras instantly thought of another promising pitcher and client who met a tragic ending.He thought of Nick Adenhart.At 4:30 a.m. on April 9, 2009, Los Angeles Angels vice president Tim Mead reached Boras with an eerily similar call: Adenhart, a 22-year-old righty rated the organizations top prospect, was a few hours removed from throwing six scoreless innings against the Oakland Athletics when he and two friends were killed by a drunken driver in Fullerton, California. One minute, Boras was watching Adenhart and his father embrace outside the clubhouse. Several hours later, he was rushing to the hospital to grieve with the family.Boras experience with Adenhart would guide his actions moving forward. Macabre as this sounds, Boras maintains in case of death files for each client. Amid minuscule odds that the unthinkable might occur, he understands the importance of being prepared.After receiving the call from Morin, Boras roused his staff, began exchanging texts and emails and booked a flight to Miami. He went through an exhaustive checklist on the plane and spent Monday in the company of Fernandezs mother, Maritza, and grandmother Olga.I learned through Nick that there are no stop signs in caring for families, Boras said. After you get through the emotion of watching a grieving mother lose her son, you can sit down with her and say, Heres the file. Here are your choices. Heres the list of everything you have. The family has a comfort level in knowing this is all taken care of.Most everything was taken care of for Jose Fernandez. Boras conducted an annual review with the pitcher over the summer, and the documents were in place to ensure that if anything happened to him, his entire estate would go to his mother, including a $1.05 million accidental death payment. His designation of what he wanted to have done in the event of his death was clearly executed, Boras said. Fernandez had begun taking care of many of the details before learning several months ago that he was about to become a first-time father.Yet even as he fulfilled his professional obligations, Boras was hard-pressed to find comfort. He endured several nights of fitful sleep before honoring Fernandez with a powerful eulogy on Thursday.His two most passionate places were on the water and on the mound, Boras told mourners at Fernandezs funeral. Both represented his rights and the freedom he most coveted. Ironically the waters that brought Jose to us are the same waters that took him to a new freedom -- the high heavens.FERNANDEZS BOUNDLESS TALENT leaves baseball historians wondering what he could have been. He won a Rookie of the Year award, made two All-Star teams and averaged 11.2 strikeouts per nine innings, and he was laying the foundation for a Hall of Fame career at age 24.The scores of fans who left flowers and handwritten notes for Fernandez at Marlins Park this week were a testament to his impact on South Floridas collective psyche. Fernandez naturally gravitated to children, and he was an icon among Cuban fans, who could relate to his escape from the island at age 15.When people came to watch him pitch, its like they came to find freedom, said Marlins third baseman Martin Prado. I know people in this country are free and have an opportunity to do whatever they want. But Jose performed and expressed himself in a different way than Ive ever seen from a pitcher. To the Cuban and the Spanish communities, he represented all those people who wanted to come to this country and have the American dream.Sundays boat crash came during an eventful time in Fernandezs personal life. When Fernandez shared a recent Instagram post confirming that he would soon become a father, initial reports identified the woman in the photo as his fiancée, Carla Mendoza. It subsequently came to light that Fernandez and Mendoza broke up in April, and the mother-to-be is Maria Arias, a former college psychology major who reportedly became pregnant weeks after she and Fernandez began dating.Numerous people in Fernandezs orbit had reservations about whether he was ready to settle down and get married or handle the responsibility of a long-term relationship. But Fernandez was all-in on fatherhood. He peppered veteran teammates for parental insights.We talked about it for the longest time down in the bar in Philly, said Marlins outfielder Jeff Francoeur. He wanted to have a boy, and he found out he was having a girl, and he was in a panic. I have a 3?-year-old, and I told him, Having a girl is the greatest thing. Shell love you like no other. Jose joked and said, What about when she turns 13? And I told him, Well, then you might want to run as far as you can from it.Anybody who knew Jose knows that he lived life hard -- not just baseball but everything else. Thats why I so wanted him to meet his little girl. I really think it would havee changed him a lot.dddddddddddd When you have a kid, a lot of the selfish things go away. I think he was starting to understand that.While Fernandez was rich in friends and ability, he had barely tapped the surface of his earnings potential. He made $2.8 million this season, and based on industry precedent, his salary would have increased to $11 million or thereabouts in 2017. If he had continued to stay healthy, he would have been a candidate for a $200 million-plus contract upon reaching free agency in late 2018.With $6.5 million in career earnings, Fernandez was affluent by everyday standards, but he was still two years and 60 starts away from attaining Jay Gatsby -- or Clayton Kershaw -- caliber wealth.Although Fernandez lived life at warp speed, he was relatively conservative with his spending habits. He bought his mother a house in Miami and a home for himself in Tampa but drove a loaner car and was not over the top with his clothing budget. His one extravagance was Kaught Looking, the 32-foot SeaVee boat that Fernandez, Emilio Macias and Eduardo Rivera were riding when it struck a jetty off Miami Beach early Sunday morning, killing all three upon impact.As authorities investigate the accident and await the results of toxicology tests, Fernandezs estate is in line to receive a $1.05 million accidental death payment and $450,000 in life insurance through Major League Baseballs benefits package. Typically, players designate beneficiaries for these policies in conjunction with being placed on 40-man rosters. Boras said he was not at liberty to divulge the identity of Fernandezs beneficiary.Teams routinely take out massive life insurance policies for players with nine-figure contracts, but insurance companies dont make gargantuan outlays based on projected future earnings. Fernandez received some ancillary money through marketing deals, Boras said, but he did not have a significant life insurance policy.NOW THAT FERNANDEZ has been laid to rest, Boras and his firm have begun the process of setting up an unborn trust for the pitchers daughter. Money generally cannot be bequeathed directly to an unborn child. Once the girl is born, the money in the trust would be administered by a trustee who is designated to ensure the funds are used for the benefit of the child.Since Arias, the mother, is not a legal relative to Fernandez, she has no legal claim to assets. Boras said Fernandez s personal savings, his house and other material possessions had been placed in a separate trust shared by him and his mother. Everything now belongs to Maritza Fernandez.Its a virtual certainty the Marlins will be involved in contributing toward the trust for Fernandezs daughter. CEO Jeffrey Loria is often pilloried in the media for his baseball-related decisions, but several people who have worked for him describe him as extraordinarily generous behind the scenes. Club president David Samson said the Marlins have about 613 steps they need to take to honor Fernandez. Finding a way to help support the pitchers child is likely to rank near the top of the list.Marlins players have already shared their desire to contribute to the trust.You dont want that baby to be left behind, Francoeur said. At the end of the day, that little girl is going to be his one piece of blood and his legacy. If Jose could say one thing to us, it would probably be, Make sure my little girl is taken care of.Prado, who had become close enough to Fernandez that the family chose him to do a reading at Thursdays funeral, is convinced Fernandez would have taken the lead if any of his teammates ever needed help.Im 100 percent sure that Jose would have done the same thing for us, Prado said.As the Miami players move forward a day at a time, they continue to vent their emotions through laughter and tears. During an idle moment this week, Boras recalled how Fernandez, Dominican outfielder Marcell Ozuna and Taiwanese pitcher Wei-Yin Chen -- his three big Marlins clients -- had formed an improbable friendship.We would go to lunch, and they would be speaking Mandarin, Spanish and whatever the three of them made up, Boras said. They knew what each other was talking about. They taught each other all the cuss words in their respective languages. It was such a wonderful union.When Fernandezs teammates kneeled at the mound and wrote messages to him in the dirt Monday night, it was among the most poignant moments of this or any other season. Several years from now, Fernandezs daughter will be able to look back and watch the video of Dee Gordons home run, Giancarlo Stantons tearful pregame speech and countless other displays of affection.The Marlins did a great job so we can build a memory for that child, Boras said. When shes old enough to understand, we can tell her, This is your father. This is who he was. This is how he was revered.The day after Fernandez learned he would become a father, Boras said, the pitcher ordered a baseball glove and wrote the name Penelope on it to his unborn daughter. Years from now, his Marlins teammates will continue to tell stories of his big heart and loving nature. Those memories will be the ultimate gift to the child Jose Fernandez never knew. ' ' '