Sydney Crosby practiced yesterday in Broussard, Quebec, just outside Montreal in advance of the first game.

Canada will play in the Four Nations face-off tournament tomorrow night against Sweden.

Yes, he was cleared to play in that game, cleared medically,

from the injury that kept him out of the Penguins' last two games before the break.

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If you happen to be one of those people who are cynical about Sid having been held out of those two games

that the Penguins played in New York and in Philadelphia.

Look, I can't convince you one way or the other.

What became the priority?

I can share that visually, just watching him, it was killing him to not participate.

And in something that he revealed yesterday in his session with reporters that he didn't on the New York Philly trip was that he had been ruled out of those games, both of those games, and it was done

by the Penguins medical staff. He subsequently flew from Philadelphia to Montreal, was examined

anew and was cleared.

So just want to get that part out of the way because I'm sure it's going to be a topic of discussion, if not outright debate.

To me, if you're not able to trust Sid after all this time and everything that he's given,

that's way more a reflection on you than it would be on reality.

The reality, setting all of that aside, is that Sid has yet another chance to win yet another really big thing.

The way he's been doing his whole life.

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