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  • GoldenJet
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    Re: *The Crosby Effect* A Penguins Dynasty 2.0

    Anze Kopitar is supposed to get 31 goals and 61 points.
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      Re: *The Crosby Effect* A Penguins Dynasty 2.0

      New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced today that center Chris Drury has been named the 25th Captain in team history.


      "Chris Drury is a natural leader who possesses all of the qualities and characteristics we desire from our Captain," Sather said. "He has always been known as a clutch performer and a winner. Chris leads by example with his tireless work ethic on and off the ice, and is extremely deserving of this honor."

      Drury, 32, is entering his 10th season in the NHL and second with the Rangers. He was originally selected by the Quebec Nordiques as their third round choice, 72nd overall, in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft.

      In 1998-99, he won the Calder Trophy as the league’s top rookie after finishing the season third among first-year players with 20 goals. He recorded a career-best 47 assists in 1999-00, and established career-highs with 37 goals and 69 points during the 2006-07 season. Drury tallied 11 goals during the 2001 playoffs, second-most in the league, to help the Colorado Avalanche capture the Stanley Cup Championship.
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      • GoldenJet
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        Re: *The Crosby Effect* A Penguins Dynasty 2.0

        STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Ottawa's Chris Neil says he was ready to play Saturday's Bridgestone NHL Premiere 2008 Stockholm showdown between his Senators and the Pittsburgh Penguins here at the Globe Arena virtually from the first day of training camp.

        "There's no switch to flip," he told NHL.com on Friday after the Senators' final preseason practice. "We know that we had to work hard every day. You can't ask a team to flip a switch. You can't take it easy because that's when you get beat."

        Neil is the type of player who knows only one gear -- and his engine is always running at full throttle. Other players take a little while longer to get warmed up. Yet there was no doubt every player from each side was champing at the bit to resume regular-season hostilities, which will happen Saturday (2:30 p.m. ET, NHLN, CBC, RIS) in the first game of the two-game Bridgestone NHL Premiere 2008 Stockholm series here between the two teams. The Senators and Penguins will play again Sunday (2:30 p.m., VERSUS, CBC, RDS).

        Once the final piece of almost a week-long odyssey of ceremony and sightseeing was dispatched with Friday's open practice sessions at the Globe Arena, all attention was focused on the two points up for grabs in a little more than 24 hours.


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        After a long summer, the 2008-09 season is almost upon us. It's time to lace up the skates, tape up the sticks and drop the puck. From Europe to a spectacular centennial, you won't want to miss a moment. READ MORE ›




        ******* type=text/javascript>jQuery(function(){ jQuery('#inbodyRelMed').corner('6px '); });"Obviously you want to play for real," Pittsburgh wing Max Talbot said. "We had a nice week here, but now it's for real. Obviously we are not in Pittsburgh and we are not in Ottawa, but it's still a regular-season game."

        And with the animosity that has developed between these two clubs in recent seasons, they could play this game virtually anywhere and the players would be raring to get after it.

        Last season, the Pittsburgh Penguins swept the Senators, the defending Eastern Conference champions, out of the playoffs in the first round, dominating play throughout the series. But that was merely payback for the first-round hammering the Senators administered to the Penguins two seasons ago.

        For that reason, Pittsburgh coach Michel Therrien is happy his club is opening against the Senators. He knows his players will be focused from the start, armed with the knowledge that a lack of focus could lead to an ugly -- and unacceptable -- result Saturday.

        "We know Ottawa really well," Therrien said. "We played those guys the last two years in the playoffs and it's almost a rivalry when we play that team."

        You can throw the "almost" out. These teams don't like each other all that much. Each knows the road to the Stanley Cup Final out of the Eastern Conference likely will have to go through the other team at some point.

        "We can't ask for a better situation than to play a team that we have a rivalry with to make sure you are ready," Therrien added.

        Daniel Alfredsson has enjoyed the week in his native Sweden more than anybody, spending several days in his hometown of Gothenburg and being honored by his former club team there, Frolunda, in a very moving ceremony.

        In fact, he called the four-day stay in Gothenburg a "pretty good ego trip." But the sight of the Penguins, who blitzed his team 16-5 in a four-game smackdown last spring, is more than enough of an incentive to snap out of any residual reverie.

        "That won't be a problem," Alfredsson said of regaining his focus for the task at hand. "When I am at the rink, it's about work. That's the way it has to be.

        "We know that we want to get off to a really good start against a good team like Pittsburgh. We have a lot of respect for their team. They have guys that can individually win games for you and they are good on defense."





        Both teams are loaded with singular talents.

        Penguins captain Sidney Crosby has taken all of Scandinavia by storm during his time here. Friday afternoon, 100 or so Swedish children hung over the railings at the Globe, pleading for autographs with a sing-song chant of his name.

        It was the same Thursday night in Helsinki when the Penguins dropped in for an exhibition against Jokerit, a game in which Crosby managed three assists.

        Therrien said such a reaction has become common wherever his captain goes and asks why Stockholm should be any different.

        "He attracts a lot of people in North America, and with the new technology out there and the Internet, I'm not surprised at all that there is a big interest in him in Sweden," Therrien said. "He's the face of the NHL and he's a great role model."

        "We know Ottawa really well. We played those guys the last two years in the playoffs and it's almost a rivalry when we play that team." – Michel Therrien







        But he is not the only star on display this weekend in Sweden's capital.

        The Penguins also have Evgeni Malkin, the Russian center who appears ready to have his biggest season yet and who has stepped into more of a leadership role with the team, a maturation that was reflected by his being named Thursday an alternate captain for Saturday's game.

        Pittsburgh also has young goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, who is poised to become a top-tier goalie after backstopping the Penguins to Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final.

        Ottawa counters with a talented trio that does not have to take a back seat to anyone.


        "We know that we want to get off to a really good start against a good team like Pittsburgh. We have a lot of respect for their team. They have guys that can individually win games for you and they are good on defense."
        -- Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson





        ******* type=text/javascript>jQuery(function(){ jQuery('#inbody-userquote').corner('6px '); });Alfredsson, a national hero in Sweden, likely will play on the first line this weekend because of injury concerns to Mike Fischer. That means he will be reunited with center Jason Spezza and high-scoring forward Dany Heatley. Combined, those three players put up 115 goals during the 2007-08 season.

        The fans filing into Stockholm from all over Europe and North America in the past few days that will pack Globe Arena for Saturday's extravaganza will witness a game that won't soon be forgotten in these parts.

        For the players, it won't matter that they will be skating onto a foreign ice surface -- figuratively and literally -- or that the fans will be cheering in a different language. One team will have a logo of a Penguin on its uniform and the other will boast the head of a Roman general and that can mean just one thing: Time to get back to business.
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        • GoldenJet
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          Re: *The Crosby Effect* A Penguins Dynasty 2.0

          PRAGUE, Czech Republic – The arena is foreign. The ice is smaller than the regular NHL surface. The city is different and attractive, allowing the players to become tourists when they're not at work, which is, of course, rare back home.

          The stakes, though, don't change. For the first time since May for the New York Rangers and early April for the Tampa Bay Lightning, the goals and saves, penalties and power plays will matter this weekend.

          The Bridgestone NHL Premiere Prague (Saturday noon EST, NHLN, CBC, RDS; Sunday noon EST, VERSUS, RDS) is a highly anticipated and heavily marketed global event for the National Hockey League. Its success is measured by the attention it gets, the buzz it creates, and the money it generates.

          For the players and coaches, though, the success of the NHL Premiere Series is measured in simple math – two points for a win. The continent doesn't matter.


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          High expectations for Meszaros

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          ******* type=text/javascript>jQuery(function(){ jQuery('#inbodyRelMed').corner('6px '); });"Tomorrow is the day," Tampa Bay forward Martin St. Louis said. "It's the day we have been waiting for and working for. This is a good test for us. We all want to see what we're made of in real competition."

          The Rangers and the Lightning both are enigmas now, teams that each infused their locker rooms with new blood and leadership. The Bolts even have new owners and coaches, making their overhaul complete.

          No matter how much speculation you want to make, nobody knows what to expect from either team. And other than the novelty of opening the season in Prague, that's what makes this weekend so interesting for everyone involved, fans included.

          "You want to make a good first impression," said Lightning forward Ryan Malone, one of the many new faces in the team's dressing room this season. "We're going to establish ourselves as a hard-working team that will be tough to play against. That's what we want our reputation to be. Saying that is the easy part. Now we have to go out there and do it."

          From Tampa Bay's perspective, just about everything is new and different, save for Vincent Lecavalier and St. Louis playing together again with Vaclav Prospal.

          Oren Koules and Len Barrie are the new co-owners. Barry Melrose will coach his first game since 1995. Mike Smith may start a season as a No. 1 goalie for the first time in his career. Olaf Kolzig definitely is starting the season, his first outside Washington, in a competition for playing time for the first time in more than a decade.

          Andrej Meszaros, a former young and unpolished defenseman for the Ottawa Senators, is now a No. 1 blueliner. Top draft pick Steven Stamkos no longer is just a prospect, but a hyped-up rookie and second-line center.

          "Tomorrow is the day. It's the day we have been waiting for and working for. This is a good test for us. We all want to see what we're made of in real competition."Martin St. Louis

          Malone, Radim Vrbata, Gary Roberts, Adam Hall, Mark Recchi and Matthew Carle are more of the new players that need to contribute for the Lightning to forget about last season's last-place finish.

          "We're all excited about this new look from the ownership down," said Stamkos. "We had a pretty impressive preseason. We went 5-1, but the true test is the regular season. We'll see after this weekend's games if we're up to the task."

          The Rangers' overhaul wasn't as severe as Tampa Bay's. The coaches and management are the same, but inside the dressing room they're talking about new leadership, new veteran power and a growth spurt of sorts.

          Jaromir Jagr, Brendan Shanahan and Martin Straka are gone. The Rangers are in a new era and the team now belongs to Chris Drury and Scott Gomez.

          Markus Naslund and Nikolai Zherdev have come from the Western Conference to play in the Rangers' top six forwards. Defenseman Wade Redden has shifted from Ottawa to New York to play with Michal Rozsival.





          Rookie center Lauri Korpikoski appears ready to make his regular-season debut. Dan Fritsche, Patrick Rissmiller, Aaron Voros and Dmitri Kalinin are new as well. And last year's rookie class of Marc Staal, Brandon Dubinsky, Nigel Dawes and Ryan Callahan has grown up.

          "Preseason is good in its own way, but this is what we play for and it starts tomorrow," Naslund said. "We have to play 82 games to get to where we want to be and then it starts over again."

          For the players in both locker rooms inside the O2 Arena, the arrival of the regular season signifies a re-birth. Considering they have spent months preparing their bodies for the grind while trying to either forget what happened last season, opening night is one of the most anticipated events on the calendar.

          That it's in Prague instead of New York, Tampa Bay or any North American city matters little at this point. Everything seems so new and different, but come Saturday at 6 p.m. Prague time (noon EST), life becomes normal again for these hockey players.

          "When I wake up in the morning and look at my itinerary for the day I will understand the circumstances that I'm in," Dubinsky said. "I'll also have that relief. The summer is such a tough time for a hockey player. …You're constantly worrying that you're ready to go for the next season. I'm finally there and now I can just focus on hockey, something I have done for my entire life."
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          • GoldenJet
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            Re: *The Crosby Effect* A Penguins Dynasty 2.0

            The NHL doesn't want to rely on anyone else to convey a message to its fans.
            The league's marketers are constantly trying to directly engage the 53 million people that research shows are supporters of the NHL. Its approach can be seen in the increased digital content available on the NHL's revamped website and in its new national marketing campaign.
            "We have to work hard every day to earn their trust," said Brian Jennings, the NHL's executive vice-president of marketing. "Us in the marketing department feel an obligation to be the voice of the fans inside the walls of the National Hockey League."
            The newest ad campaign - dubbed "Is This The Year?" - reflects that.
            Sidney Crosby, Dion Phaneuf, Patrick Kane and Henrik Lundqvist are all featured in their own TV spots as part of the campaign. In each one, the player emerges from a still image taken last season and talks about what will be driving him this year.
            The most compelling is the one featuring Crosby, where he steps out from a photo taken at the Penguins bench right after they lost the final game of the Stanley Cup. In the ad, Crosby says he never wants to be in that photograph again but knows the experience will make his team stronger this season.
            It's a feeling fans in Pittsburgh know well.
            "What this campaign really represents is the hopes and possibilities and anticipation for the start of the new season," said Jennings.
            In addition to the four national spots, the league has created two customized ads for each team - one focusing on a player, the other on a general team-wide storyline.
            For example, the Edmonton Oilers player-specific ad shows a montage of Sam Gagner photos and ends with the tagline: "Some say hope comes from within. Others say it comes from London, Ontario."
            Part of the thinking behind putting the focus on players is to get fans watching NHL games to see individuals rather than just teams.
            "We need to start to create that type of incremental behaviour in our fan base," said Jennings. "That's really what we're targeting towards there."
            It's part of a recent trend for a league that seems to be marketing its players more than ever before. Commissioner Gary Bettman chalks the shift up to better relations between the league and the NHL Players' Association.
            "I think because we have more co-operation than we've ever had before, our ability to involve the players has increased exponentially," said Bettman.
            The NHLPA is fairly pleased with the job the league has done of marketing the players, according to executive director Paul Kelly.
            It's a strategy that he believes makes perfect sense, judging by the success other professional sports leagues have had with it.
            "When you market the players, you have a much better chance of attracting fans to the game and giving people a reason to come, particularly young fans," said Kelly. "When the NBA focused on Larry Bird and Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan, that's what drew people into the game.
            "Football does a very good job of focusing on Peyton Manning and Tom Brady and these guys. Those personalities becomes icons to youthful fans and they plaster their walls with their pictures and they convince their families to support the sport."
            Fans of the NHL can now watch streaming video of up to four games through the league's website. The redesign also places more emphasis on video and picture content along with real-time stats.
            Meantime, the league is trying to boost its NHL Centre Ice out-of-market TV subscriptions, again with the focus on fans controlling their experience with the game.
            One place that Kelly believes the league needs to improve is its representation in popular culture. He'd liked to see players make more appearances on popular TV programs and in magazines.
            "We represent a large number of young, handsome guys who are incredibly polite and well-mannered," said Kelly. "They make excellent role models. For large corporate advertisers, companies that are looking for spokespersons that they can be proud of to represent the company and their products, there's a large number of NHL players that I think would be terrific spokespersons."
            He won't get any disagreement from the league there.
            "The one thing that we always recognize is that our players are our greatest asset," said Jennings. "They are the storytellers. What they do on the ice every night is really where the storylines are coming out of."

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              ******* type=text/javascript>jQuery(function(){ jQuery('#inbodyRelMed').corner('6px '); });"Oh yeah," said the goalie who has won just about everything a goalie can win in North America short of a Memorial Cup and a World Junior Championship. "(I dream) to win again."

              It's been five years since the Devils last hoisted the Stanley Cup, and now that Sergei Brylin is playing in Russia, Brodeur remains the only member of the team to have played on all three championship squads dating to 1995.

              The one-time recognizable defense that included Scott Stevens, Scott Niedermayer, Ken Daneyko and Brian Rafalski is long gone. In place of it is a somewhat anonymous group including Paul Martin, Bryce Salvador, Mike Mottau, Andy Greene, Sheldon Brookbank and Johnny Oduya.

              Colin White is the only Devils' defenseman who played in front of Brodeur on a Stanley Cup winner. The other six have played in a combined 100 playoff games, but 41 of those belong to Salvador, the former St. Louis Blue, and 30 are Martin's.

              Despite the obvious contrasts between his former blue-line unit and the one the Devils currently employ, the numbers show that Brodeur, who has 169 playoff games dotting his resumé, is somehow better than ever.

              Entering the NHL lockout in 2004, Brodeur's career goals against average was 2.17 and he was winning 36 games per season while playing in 67 games. Despite facing about 400 more shots per season since the lockout, Brodeur's GAA has jumped to only 2.20 and he is averaging 45 wins while playing 76 games per season.

              Remarkably, Brodeur said he hasn't changed one bit.

              "The game changed," he offered instead. "We see more shots and more power plays, so I have no choice. It is not my fault that we were so good (before the lockout), allowing only 19 shots a game. I loved it. Now I just have to work a little harder, that's really it. I just need to do a little more because we're not as deep as we used to be."

              Sometimes, though, an aging veteran, even a future Hall of Famer, doesn't want to do more at 36 than he did at 26. Brodeur still does, and that's what makes him unique.

              "He just wants to win Stanley Cups," Tampa Bay Lightning center Vincent Lecavalier said. "That's what makes him a champion."





              Brodeur dreams of being a champion again, but not for himself.
              He said one of the things that haunts him still is not winning either Games 6 or 7 of the 2001 Stanley Cup Final, because those two losses cost his backup at the time, John Vanbiesbrouck, a chance to win the Stanley Cup.

              "That kills me the most," Brodeur said. "The guy had never won a Stanley Cup and I could have won one for him and I lost it. It's a big drive for me to be able to give it to someone else."

              So now Brodeur is playing for Kevin Weekes, for his no-name defense, for Zach Parise and Travis Zajac, and for David Clarkson and Dainius Zubrus.

              "I'm telling you, after you play as a team and win as a team, that feeling to do it again is what drives you," Brodeur said. "At some point that flame won't be there any more and that's going to be the time when it's over. Right now I still have it. I care."

              He cares about the records, too, but Brodeur has never been motivated by personal goals. It's not the Devil way, and nobody defines the Devils better than Martin Brodeur.

              "We'll go for them and hopefully we'll get them," Brodeur said, "but for a goalie, the beauty is everybody is going to benefit by me getting these records."
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              • GoldenJet
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                PENGUINS NAME SKYLAND GM!!!!

                Jason Skyland in 2000, was Mario Lemieux's surpreme right winger. But now in 2008, he will be the general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins. "I owe Mario a lot for alowing me to take Ray Shero's place as the General Manager, and I can promise i'll make the Penguins into the 1st place NHL team i know they can be" said Skyland, when answering a question at the press confrence this morning. "It's a real honor to get to help this young great team become so good, I very much enjoy watching these guys play their heart out" said Skyland. "And what impressed me a lot was that they already got into the Stanley Cup finals, and even against the Detroit Red Wings, i'm not going to lie, they didn't have much of a chance". "But I know this year, we'll really show those Red Wings who's boss". And we all know that, with Skyland controlling rosters and sometimes, even practises, these Penguins are in for the season of their life.
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                • GoldenJet
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                  Re: *The Crosby Effect* A Penguins Dynasty 2.0

                  Reporters: We're Here with Dallas Stars Sean Avery. Sean, how is Dallas for you so far?

                  Sean Avery: It's a good place to be, so far I like all my teamates, their all great and I'm excited to the season to start.

                  Reporters: Who do you think will win the Art Ross Trophy for most points in a season?

                  Sean Avery: Well, you never know, but my money is on either Henrik Zetterberg of the Detroit Red Wings or Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals.

                  Reporters: Two very great players, one won four trophies last season and the other was most valuable in the playoffs, but what about Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins?

                  Sean Avery: I really won't lie to you, I hate that kid, he dives when people bump into him, he's a whiner, he'll never get out of his Crybaby stage.

                  Reporters: Well, what do you think about Jason Skyland, did you ever see him on TV.

                  Sean Avery: I think of him as an adult Crosby, the same as Siddy, except he's an old fart.

                  Reporters: Well people that's all the time we have for today, we were here with Dallas Stars enforcer Sean Avery.






                  Sean Avery


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                  • GoldenJet
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                    Re: *The Crosby Effect* A Penguins Dynasty 2.0

                    An interview With Penguins Superstar Sidney Crosby

                    Reportors: Sidney, Sean Avery had some very interesting things to say about you in our interview yesterday, saying that you dive and whine. What do you think about that?

                    Sidney Crosby: Well, I don't think i dive and when people think I'm whining i'm just trying to point out something or maybe just talk to him sometimes, I don't know, but I know I'm not whining.

                    Reporters: Well what about diving?

                    Sidney Crosby: Well I don't think I dive, I'm more tripped then falling on purpose, I mean why would I fall to try and get a penalty call on someone instead of staying in the play for a possible goal.

                    Reporters: Well what do you think will be the outcome of the games in Stockholm against the Ottawa Senators?

                    Sidney Crosby: Well, so called experts can't really predict who'll win, it all depends on who plays harder, who wants it more. All i hope is that we walk into the Mellon Arena against the New Jersey Devils with 4 points already.

                    Reporters: One last question, who will win the Cup this year?

                    Sidney Crosby: Pittsburgh for sure.
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                    • thrashman
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                      #325
                      Re: *The Crosby Effect* A Penguins Dynasty 2.0

                      Kovalchuk better score more than 43 goals and 81 points. Of course, the Thrashers aren't exactly providing him with much help....

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                      • GoldenJet
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                        • Jul 2008
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                        Re: *The Crosby Effect* A Penguins Dynasty 2.0

                        It's time for the Pittsburgh Penguins to turn to the fans to choose the last assisant captain for the Pens.

                        This ends by Tuesday so get your votes in quickly

                        Choices are:

                        Evgeni Malkin

                        Darryl Sydor

                        Kris Letang

                        Ruslan Fedentenko
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                        • GoldenJet
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                          Re: *The Crosby Effect* A Penguins Dynasty 2.0

                          Ok people, deciding with Starking, I've decided to move the thread. It will still be the same dynasty, just a different thread. Starking thinks that there are too many updates and I agree that 30 something pages without a game is too much to newcomers so....
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                          • SabresKings3623
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                            #328
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                            BUMP. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111

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                            • star king3
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                              #329
                              Re: *The Crosby Effect* A Penguins Dynasty 2.0

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