In a research kind of mood in between the hockey games, and I've got the laptop out for this episode.

Doing some fun digging here.

And in particular, I'm going to see where the Sydney Crosby line rated in the scope of the National Hockey League.

I think the answer is going to surprise you a little bit.

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shots of Steelers and Pirates in the same place that you found this. The Sid Ricard Raquel

and Brian Rust line has no weaknesses. You can look at that through, actually, there's one,

and I'll get to it a minute, but you can look at that through conventional stats.

You can see that Raquel's got 24 goals to lead the team.

Rust is right behind him with 20, and Sid's right behind that with 17.

Sid, of course, is the leading scorer on a team with 58 points.

Raquel 46, Rust 40.

Nice stuff.

Now, they're all deep into the minuses,

which is what happens when you get off to a start like the Penguins did.

And in particular, the stat that I was referencing a moment ago

was that they've been on the ice for way too many scoring chances for the

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