October 8, 2025 • 15 mins
Mark Madden is joined by Penguins Captain Sidney Crosby
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
My guess right now is a three time Stanley Cup champion,
a six time international gold medalist, has had a point
per game for a record twenty straight seasons, and right now,
most important, his team is one and zero. There is
only one world, There is only one world's best hockey player.
There is only one Sidney Crosby. So you win three
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nothing you want to know? And it was pretty concise
and buttoned up last night. What was good about that win?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Sid? I think we were just I thought we were
pretty organized. You know, coming off of training camp and
playing your first game, you expected to be a little choppy,
but I thought, you know, our structure was pretty good
in all three zones and you know, everybody contributed every line.
I thought cherry play at certain points, came up with
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some big defensive plays when we needed them, and goaltending
was really solid. So I just thought it was just
a solid effort all the way through.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
What's it like for you in your twenty first season
to have all those kids in the room you sit
between Kindle and cloyvenin.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
What's that do for your energy? Because you were that
kid once?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, I think it helps. I mean, you know, you
see how hungry those guys are and you know that. Yeah,
I think that youth energy is important. You know, the
competition for spots. I think that's something that can help
and push a group. But yeah, I think yeah, as
a young guy in that position, I remember wanting to
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bring that and you can see that that's something that
naturally that they have though too, just because there is
a lot that's new, They're hungry and they want to
prove themselves, so that can definitely help the team.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
How do the kids treat you? Like in the room?
Do they treat you like you're made of glass? Are
they over that?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Uh? It depends. I think that the more you get
to know them, the better I think the more it's
like like any teammate, you know, whether they're younger or
it's a new teammate, I think, Uh, you know, it
always takes a little bit to build that comfort level.
And when you've played with guys for a really long time,
that's why it's it's Uh, it's something that is so
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unique because you build that over time. You have that
trust and belief and and that comfort level. So that's
something that just comes with time, I think. But yeah,
there's always a bit of a feeling no process there.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Hoven and do on your wing last night. I feel
like he has a little bit of Jake potential.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, he sees the ice really well. He can make
little plays given goes. He had a great chance there
in the second he made a nice play on the
goalie and just hit the post. He's come really close
a bunch of times, so I would expect him to
put one in here pretty soon. He's been all around
it and and like you said, he's got really good
hockey sense, and that was something that that gainst Kansas,
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you know, he was so so smart and not the
biggest guy, but goes to tough areas and a lot
of similarities there.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Does Clevenan watch the iPad with you between shifts? I
wish I could get downe there, I'd watch the iPad.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah. I try to stay away from the iPad as
much as possible that the odd time will take a
peek at it and try to go over things, try
to fast track that learning curve. But for the most part,
you know, playing with them last year and a little
bit through camp that helps too. So it's been pretty good.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
What about Bruni and Kindle, I can't believe watched them
last night and in camp that they're nineteen and eighteen.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, I mean just the poise that they both have.
They skate really well. I think that's probably the biggest
thing that allows them just to make plays and probably
to be confident and comfortable just with the speed just
because of their own skating ability and just buys them
that extra second to make plays and gets them out
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of trouble. You know, Bruno skateing himself out of trouble
a couple of times. He made some really good, good
plays in the offensive zone. You know. I thought Kenny
was really good as the game went on to even
just taking pucks of the net and being more assertive.
And he played, you know, a bunch of preseason games too,
so I think that that probably helps with his confidence.
But you know, they had a really good camp and
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just kind of kept it going into the last night's game.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Now, you didn't have a point last night, and I'm
sure you're not panicked about that, but your two hundred
foot game was very evident, like always. Is that the
toughest thing to maintain after twenty seasons to play the
whole rink all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I don't know. I think you realized over time that
you know, playing good defensively will eventually lead to offense.
So some nights it might not feel like that, but
I think you know, the goal is to get out
of your own zone as quick as possible and create offense.
So if you're defensively, hopefully that that leads to either
quick odd man rushas or gets you out of there
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quick and can use your energy trying to trying to
score goals and try to defend them. But yeah, I
think just you know, trying to focus on especially as
a centerman, that's that's part of your responsibility. So it's
not something you really try to get away from. It's
it's part of the game, and it's part of something
that you know, I've tried to do, you know, for
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a long time. So I don't think I don't think
it's any harder. I think you just it's just something
that you really have to continue to tingrain the details
and make sure that you know you're stopping on pucks
and in the right spots and then hopefully that leads
offense as well.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Short short term answer here, but what's it been like
playing for Dan Mues, your first new head coach?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
In almost ten years.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
It's been good. You know, he's really passionate. I thought, uh,
during camp, it was really organized as far as what
we wanted to go over, and you know, trying to
hit so much, it's not easy. It seems like a
long time, but it's really not with so many, so
many players, and you have all those preseason games with
different lineups, so it's not easy, you know, trying to
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get everyone on the same page necessarily, and and go
through all that in a short period of time. And
I thought he did a really good job with that.
I thought there's a lot of competition and and the
skates were good. So it carried over into Game one
and hopefully we can just keep getting better with each game.
But he's been he's been really good.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Do you really hate change like I think you do?
Or do I overthink that.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
No, I don't think I hate change. I think like
you have to evolve. I mean, you have to be
able to just and adapt. And I would say like change,
just a change probably bothers me sometimes I think that,
you know, there's there's got to be purpose for it.
But yeah, I think that it just it really depends
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on what it is. But I wouldn't say I'm against it.
I think it's just it's just more about you know,
making sure that there's a purpose and and you know,
if it's not broke, don't fix it. But you've got
to evolve and you've got to adapt. So that's that's
part of the two.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
We're talking to Sydney Cosby here on the X. This
is season number twenty together for you, Gino and Tanger,
which is unheard of in modern sports.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
What makes that special?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Oh, so many things. I mean just I think the
time itself, that's a that's a long time, and you
know nowadays, with so much movement and turnover, it's it's
so rare. So I think just the time itself, but
also what makes up that twenty years. I mean, we've
been in so many different circumstances, you know, as a
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team individually, we've we've been through a lot. And you
know that's that's been you know, one consistency through it
all is just being teammates and being there for each
other and being able to experience so many things. So that's, uh,
you know, that's a pretty cool thing to be a
part of.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
It was also special when Mark Andre Fourry came back
for the curtain call in that exhibition game, wasn't it?
And I bet as far as you guys are concerned,
we didn't see the best stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know, you probably saw most
of it. It's hard. It's hard now everything you know,
they get everything now. But I just thought it was
so nice. You know, I played in at the Worlds
and we lost to Denmark, and I thought that was
going to be his last game, so to speak. And
you know, for him to be able to come to Pittsburgh,
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have a couple of days, you know, really you know,
soak it in and then have the response and the
ovation from the crowd and the turnout there that was
that was so special. Really the the perfect way to
be able to draw it up. So he's really happy
with the way that everything worked out and just just
really happy for him. He deserves it and it couldn't
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have really been any better. So it was really cool
that we could be we could be a part of
that too.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Now on the negative side, he vandalized your car. I mean,
if you fix that, taking the decal off the twenty.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Nine Yeah, yeah, it took me a bit. That was
actually I think he took it easy on us.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I thought that too.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Actually, I've seen some of his work. Oh yeah, some
of his work, so I think he took it easy, honest.
But I will say he didn't have a lot of
time to scheme up stuff. So you know that was
that was well done by him. But it will it
will continue, so we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Now, one are your goals now, and let me cut
you off. I know you're going to say to win,
and it's true. I believe you, I know you, but
come on, passing Mario stats maybe two thousand points sid,
they're going to give you a statue.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
You've got to think about some of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
No, I don't. Actually, I'm being honest with you. That's
that's not even on my mind. Yeah, I just you know,
I love to play, I think even at this I
love to learn. I love to to compete and get better,
So I don't I don't think too much long term.
I like to kind of stay in the present. And
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uh yeah, I mean I'm aware of Mario's numbers, but
that's not I don't think that's what's motivating me every day.
So yeah, hopefully, you know, hopefully to that point. But yeah,
I try not to think too far ahead. That's just
always the way I've approached it.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
We know, one thing that motivates you, you want to
win a gold medal for Canada at the Milan Olympics
coming up. I imagine that's made even more fun by
Canada's young guys because I forget who said it, but
they were all fans of you growing up.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah, it's a really it's a really cool group. I mean,
we've got a few guys who have been there. You know,
Drew Dowdy was there in Vancouver, so it was you know,
there's a wide range, and with missing a couple, I
think just the hunger to want to be in it,
just the excitement enthusiasm around it is probably at an
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all time high because the fact that we we missed
a couple and then you look at four Nations and
how that ended up, and just the level of play
and and just the brand of hockey and the intensity
that that was there. I think that that everyone even
more excited. So it's just kind of it's grown and
and I think with it getting closer and closer, just
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the level of hockey and representing your country and everything
that comes with the Olympics itself. Yeah, I just think
it's amazing hockey and everybody just gets really excited for it.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Is it different too, because I'm not saying you guys
are the underdog, but I feel like you in the
in the US are neck and neck.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, I mean you could throw some other teams in
there too. I just think the countries are so close now,
and in one game anything can happen. So definitely, you
know with four nations and how close those games were
and how that went. Yeah, you look at international hockey.
You know, we we lost in the quarters at the
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World's but it's, uh, it's become everyone's become so much
closer and and in one game, who knows. So I
think that, you know, everybody's got to be at their best.
And you look at the teams, they're all they're all
so skilled and and deep. So that's that's what makes
it so special though. It's just seeing that amount of
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talent and uh, and the product that's on the ice
is is as good as you're going to see?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
How far away are the Penguins from being as good
as you want? Are you encouraged by the direction?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah? I mean, you know, like I said, individually. I
don't look too far ahead as a team. I think
you're just looking to try to try to continue to
get better and and uh, you know, we we go
to every night to try to win games. But you know,
as as you're seeing, there's some younger players, So I
think there's guys that are trying to prove that they're
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you know, their NHL players. You know, every single day,
they're trying to prove that they belong. And I think
that's that's healthy. I think, you know, coming off of
a really good preseason, I think that built some confidence
as far as the trajector trajectory, though I don't I
don't know. I mean, I think there's a lot of
teams probably asking themselves the same question. I don't think that,
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uh you know, we're the only ones, but it's hard
to forecast. I think you just you try to get better,
You try to learn, and and try to accelerate that
that learning curve as best you can. But hopefully the
mix of having guys who have been there for a
long time and and can you know, bring some experience
and and add that way, and then some youthful some
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youthful energy, some some young some young guys who are
eager and want to learn, and and I want to
show that they belong. Hopefully that combination is something that
that can help us along.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I know you hate the trade talk, and we both
know that the best way to shut it down is
for you guys to win.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Don't you feel that way?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
It's a yeah, you're right, I mean yeah, winning just
just has a way of curing curing all. So yeah,
there's nothing more than I'd love is just to you know,
to keep keep getting wins and not have to worry
about even you know, going into that discussion.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
You know you've become a really good interview. Do you
remember the first time we talked our our buddy the
Riz brought you down to that restaurant at the hotel across.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
The street from the arena, steel Head.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
The Steelhead, right, you were eighteen years old, your parents
were there.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
It was just Dawston. Do you remember that at all?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I do.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It was packed too, I remember it was. It was
packed in there and you had to set up I
think in one of the corners right right, yeah, yeah, no,
it was right. It was right across the street from
the Melons. So yeah, I remember, I remember that for sure, well, of.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Course it was packed. Sidney Crossby just got to town.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
In closing, as always, I ask are you married and engaged?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
They're going to be a father soon.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Nothing new up to you there.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Someday we're gonna break news. I swear to God, sid
As always, it's a it's a pleasure having you on.
Good job last night. We'll see it at the opener tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Okay, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
That's our buddy, Sidney Crosby, Penguins one to know. I'm
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Speaker 3 (15:16):
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My guess right now is a three time Stanley Cup champion,
a six time international gold medalist, has had a point
per game for a record twenty straight seasons, and right now,
most important, his team is one and zero. There is
only one world, There is only one world's best hockey player.
There is only one Sidney Crosby. So you win three
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nothing you want to know? And it was pretty concise
and buttoned up last night. What was good about that win?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Sid? I think we were just I thought we were
pretty organized. You know, coming off of training camp and
playing your first game, you expected to be a little choppy,
but I thought, you know, our structure was pretty good
in all three zones and you know, everybody contributed every line.
I thought cherry play at certain points, came up with
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some big defensive plays when we needed them, and goaltending
was really solid. So I just thought it was just
a solid effort all the way through.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
What's it like for you in your twenty first season
to have all those kids in the room you sit
between Kindle and cloyvenin.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
What's that do for your energy? Because you were that
kid once?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, I think it helps. I mean, you know, you
see how hungry those guys are and you know that. Yeah,
I think that youth energy is important. You know, the
competition for spots. I think that's something that can help
and push a group. But yeah, I think yeah, as
a young guy in that position, I remember wanting to
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bring that and you can see that that's something that
naturally that they have though too, just because there is
a lot that's new, They're hungry and they want to
prove themselves, so that can definitely help the team.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
How do the kids treat you? Like in the room?
Do they treat you like you're made of glass? Are
they over that?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Uh? It depends. I think that the more you get
to know them, the better I think the more it's
like like any teammate, you know, whether they're younger or
it's a new teammate, I think, Uh, you know, it
always takes a little bit to build that comfort level.
And when you've played with guys for a really long time,
that's why it's it's Uh, it's something that is so
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unique because you build that over time. You have that
trust and belief and and that comfort level. So that's
something that just comes with time, I think. But yeah,
there's always a bit of a feeling no process there.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Hoven and do on your wing last night. I feel
like he has a little bit of Jake potential.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, he sees the ice really well. He can make
little plays given goes. He had a great chance there
in the second he made a nice play on the
goalie and just hit the post. He's come really close
a bunch of times, so I would expect him to
put one in here pretty soon. He's been all around
it and and like you said, he's got really good
hockey sense, and that was something that that gainst Kansas,
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you know, he was so so smart and not the
biggest guy, but goes to tough areas and a lot
of similarities there.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Does Clevenan watch the iPad with you between shifts? I
wish I could get downe there, I'd watch the iPad.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah. I try to stay away from the iPad as
much as possible that the odd time will take a
peek at it and try to go over things, try
to fast track that learning curve. But for the most part,
you know, playing with them last year and a little
bit through camp that helps too. So it's been pretty good.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
What about Bruni and Kindle, I can't believe watched them
last night and in camp that they're nineteen and eighteen.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, I mean just the poise that they both have.
They skate really well. I think that's probably the biggest
thing that allows them just to make plays and probably
to be confident and comfortable just with the speed just
because of their own skating ability and just buys them
that extra second to make plays and gets them out
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of trouble. You know, Bruno skateing himself out of trouble
a couple of times. He made some really good, good
plays in the offensive zone. You know. I thought Kenny
was really good as the game went on to even
just taking pucks of the net and being more assertive.
And he played, you know, a bunch of preseason games too,
so I think that that probably helps with his confidence.
But you know, they had a really good camp and
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just kind of kept it going into the last night's game.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Now, you didn't have a point last night, and I'm
sure you're not panicked about that, but your two hundred
foot game was very evident, like always. Is that the
toughest thing to maintain after twenty seasons to play the
whole rink all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I don't know. I think you realized over time that
you know, playing good defensively will eventually lead to offense.
So some nights it might not feel like that, but
I think you know, the goal is to get out
of your own zone as quick as possible and create offense.
So if you're defensively, hopefully that that leads to either
quick odd man rushas or gets you out of there
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quick and can use your energy trying to trying to
score goals and try to defend them. But yeah, I
think just you know, trying to focus on especially as
a centerman, that's that's part of your responsibility. So it's
not something you really try to get away from. It's
it's part of the game, and it's part of something
that you know, I've tried to do, you know, for
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a long time. So I don't think I don't think
it's any harder. I think you just it's just something
that you really have to continue to tingrain the details
and make sure that you know you're stopping on pucks
and in the right spots and then hopefully that leads
offense as well.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Short short term answer here, but what's it been like
playing for Dan Mues, your first new head coach?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
In almost ten years.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
It's been good. You know, he's really passionate. I thought, uh,
during camp, it was really organized as far as what
we wanted to go over, and you know, trying to
hit so much, it's not easy. It seems like a
long time, but it's really not with so many, so
many players, and you have all those preseason games with
different lineups, so it's not easy, you know, trying to
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get everyone on the same page necessarily, and and go
through all that in a short period of time. And
I thought he did a really good job with that.
I thought there's a lot of competition and and the
skates were good. So it carried over into Game one
and hopefully we can just keep getting better with each game.
But he's been he's been really good.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Do you really hate change like I think you do?
Or do I overthink that.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
No, I don't think I hate change. I think like
you have to evolve. I mean, you have to be
able to just and adapt. And I would say like change,
just a change probably bothers me sometimes I think that,
you know, there's there's got to be purpose for it.
But yeah, I think that it just it really depends
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on what it is. But I wouldn't say I'm against it.
I think it's just it's just more about you know,
making sure that there's a purpose and and you know,
if it's not broke, don't fix it. But you've got
to evolve and you've got to adapt. So that's that's
part of the two.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
We're talking to Sydney Cosby here on the X. This
is season number twenty together for you, Gino and Tanger,
which is unheard of in modern sports.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
What makes that special?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Oh, so many things. I mean just I think the
time itself, that's a that's a long time, and you
know nowadays, with so much movement and turnover, it's it's
so rare. So I think just the time itself, but
also what makes up that twenty years. I mean, we've
been in so many different circumstances, you know, as a
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team individually, we've we've been through a lot. And you
know that's that's been you know, one consistency through it
all is just being teammates and being there for each
other and being able to experience so many things. So that's, uh,
you know, that's a pretty cool thing to be a
part of.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
It was also special when Mark Andre Fourry came back
for the curtain call in that exhibition game, wasn't it?
And I bet as far as you guys are concerned,
we didn't see the best stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know, you probably saw most
of it. It's hard. It's hard now everything you know,
they get everything now. But I just thought it was
so nice. You know, I played in at the Worlds
and we lost to Denmark, and I thought that was
going to be his last game, so to speak. And
you know, for him to be able to come to Pittsburgh,
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have a couple of days, you know, really you know,
soak it in and then have the response and the
ovation from the crowd and the turnout there that was
that was so special. Really the the perfect way to
be able to draw it up. So he's really happy
with the way that everything worked out and just just
really happy for him. He deserves it and it couldn't
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have really been any better. So it was really cool
that we could be we could be a part of
that too.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Now on the negative side, he vandalized your car. I mean,
if you fix that, taking the decal off the twenty.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Nine Yeah, yeah, it took me a bit. That was
actually I think he took it easy on us.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I thought that too.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Actually, I've seen some of his work. Oh yeah, some
of his work, so I think he took it easy, honest.
But I will say he didn't have a lot of
time to scheme up stuff. So you know that was
that was well done by him. But it will it
will continue, so we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Now, one are your goals now, and let me cut
you off. I know you're going to say to win,
and it's true. I believe you, I know you, but
come on, passing Mario stats maybe two thousand points sid,
they're going to give you a statue.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
You've got to think about some of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
No, I don't. Actually, I'm being honest with you. That's
that's not even on my mind. Yeah, I just you know,
I love to play, I think even at this I
love to learn. I love to to compete and get better,
So I don't I don't think too much long term.
I like to kind of stay in the present. And
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uh yeah, I mean I'm aware of Mario's numbers, but
that's not I don't think that's what's motivating me every day.
So yeah, hopefully, you know, hopefully to that point. But yeah,
I try not to think too far ahead. That's just
always the way I've approached it.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
We know, one thing that motivates you, you want to
win a gold medal for Canada at the Milan Olympics
coming up. I imagine that's made even more fun by
Canada's young guys because I forget who said it, but
they were all fans of you growing up.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yeah, it's a really it's a really cool group. I mean,
we've got a few guys who have been there. You know,
Drew Dowdy was there in Vancouver, so it was you know,
there's a wide range, and with missing a couple, I
think just the hunger to want to be in it,
just the excitement enthusiasm around it is probably at an
(11:01):
all time high because the fact that we we missed
a couple and then you look at four Nations and
how that ended up, and just the level of play
and and just the brand of hockey and the intensity
that that was there. I think that that everyone even
more excited. So it's just kind of it's grown and
and I think with it getting closer and closer, just
(11:23):
the level of hockey and representing your country and everything
that comes with the Olympics itself. Yeah, I just think
it's amazing hockey and everybody just gets really excited for it.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Is it different too, because I'm not saying you guys
are the underdog, but I feel like you in the
in the US are neck and neck.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, I mean you could throw some other teams in
there too. I just think the countries are so close now,
and in one game anything can happen. So definitely, you
know with four nations and how close those games were
and how that went. Yeah, you look at international hockey.
You know, we we lost in the quarters at the
(12:03):
World's but it's, uh, it's become everyone's become so much
closer and and in one game, who knows. So I
think that, you know, everybody's got to be at their best.
And you look at the teams, they're all they're all
so skilled and and deep. So that's that's what makes
it so special though. It's just seeing that amount of
(12:24):
talent and uh, and the product that's on the ice
is is as good as you're going to see?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
How far away are the Penguins from being as good
as you want? Are you encouraged by the direction?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah? I mean, you know, like I said, individually. I
don't look too far ahead as a team. I think
you're just looking to try to try to continue to
get better and and uh, you know, we we go
to every night to try to win games. But you know,
as as you're seeing, there's some younger players, So I
think there's guys that are trying to prove that they're
(12:57):
you know, their NHL players. You know, every single day,
they're trying to prove that they belong. And I think
that's that's healthy. I think, you know, coming off of
a really good preseason, I think that built some confidence
as far as the trajector trajectory, though I don't I
don't know. I mean, I think there's a lot of
teams probably asking themselves the same question. I don't think that,
(13:19):
uh you know, we're the only ones, but it's hard
to forecast. I think you just you try to get better,
You try to learn, and and try to accelerate that
that learning curve as best you can. But hopefully the
mix of having guys who have been there for a
long time and and can you know, bring some experience
and and add that way, and then some youthful some
(13:39):
youthful energy, some some young some young guys who are
eager and want to learn, and and I want to
show that they belong. Hopefully that combination is something that
that can help us along.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I know you hate the trade talk, and we both
know that the best way to shut it down is
for you guys to win.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Don't you feel that way?
Speaker 2 (13:59):
It's a yeah, you're right, I mean yeah, winning just
just has a way of curing curing all. So yeah,
there's nothing more than I'd love is just to you know,
to keep keep getting wins and not have to worry
about even you know, going into that discussion.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
You know you've become a really good interview. Do you
remember the first time we talked our our buddy the
Riz brought you down to that restaurant at the hotel across.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
The street from the arena, steel Head.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
The Steelhead, right, you were eighteen years old, your parents
were there.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
It was just Dawston. Do you remember that at all?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I do.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It was packed too, I remember it was. It was
packed in there and you had to set up I
think in one of the corners right right, yeah, yeah, no,
it was right. It was right across the street from
the Melons. So yeah, I remember, I remember that for sure, well, of.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Course it was packed. Sidney Crossby just got to town.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
In closing, as always, I ask are you married and engaged?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
They're going to be a father soon.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Nothing new up to you there.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Someday we're gonna break news. I swear to God, sid
As always, it's a it's a pleasure having you on.
Good job last night. We'll see it at the opener tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Okay, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
That's our buddy, Sidney Crosby, Penguins one to know. I'm
Mark Madden. One oh five nine.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Every weekday at ten am is Travis starting your birthday
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