Nothing that I say on this subject will mean even a millifraction of anything compared to what Sidney Crosby told D.K. Pittsburgh sports yesterday in San Jose.

But I'm going to go ahead and say it anyway.

Good morning to you. Good Wednesday morning from Salt Lake City. I'm Dan Kovachovich of D.K.

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Penguins versus the Utah Hockey Club.

That'll be here tonight at the Delta Center at 9.08 p.m.

But before the team left San Jose and after the team's practice at SAP Center,

Taylor Haas, our beat reporter at D.K. Pittsburgh Sports, had a one-on-one interview with Sid in which he made clear,

yet again, maybe more emphatically than ever, that he's not

going anywhere. A small sampling of that. There's been a lot of things said and, you know, obviously

that's, that's a difficult part of losing, you know, it's, you know, it's more than just the losses.

It's all the stuff that comes with it. It's the, you know, it's, you know, it's more than just the losses. It's all the stuff that comes with it.

It's the, you know, it's all the different, you know, all the different, you know, all the different

trickle-down effect that comes with that.

And, you know, that's the way it is.

But, you know, understanding that, I know that all my energy and all my focus is towards helping us and, you know, that's the way it is, but, you know, understanding that I know that all my energy and all my focus is towards helping us and doing the best we can.

And I can't control any of the other stuff.

Let me lay out kind of the template for how this stuff works.

Some doubt creeps into the penguin's broader process maybe they're eliminated by the rangers maybe they

don't make the playoffs at all maybe they go through a really really bad stretch like they did earlier

this season and that opens the door for the worst of the worst in the hockey world to, you know, do their worst.

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