The hockey team flew up from here in Florida to Buffalo yesterday.

They'll face the Sabres tonight and the great Sidney Crosby will have an opportunity to produce one point against the sabers and make really wonderful

NHL history.

Good morning to you.

Good Thursday morning.

I'm Dan Kovachievich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

This is Daily Shot of Penguins.

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football and or baseball, I also offer daily shots of Steelers and Pirates in the same place that you

found this. I'm still in Florida, obviously, for the latter, meaning that it's baseball's opening

day, Pirates and Marlins here in Miami. If I could clone myself, if I could

split the atoms, so to speak, and have a dual presence up there in Western New York, I'd do it,

because I'd love to see it. I'd love to see his reaction. I'd love to see Troy and Trina

Crosby waiting for him in the hallway outside the room, the way they were waiting

down here this week. One point is what Cid needs to reach 80 for the season, and given that he

missed two games back to back a couple of months ago in New York and Philadelphia, he obviously

needs 80 and not 82.

For a 20th consecutive, for a 20th point a game season, that would be one more than Wayne Gretzky.

And given the head start that Gretzky had with those incredibly gifted and deep and everything,

Edmonton teams, the numbers that he put up, especially with the Oilers, but then to his credit

continuing on with the Kings and everywhere else that his tour took him, he put up numbers

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