The first time most people here will see Sidney Crosby on the ice will be at training camp, including us, other than our scouts. Obviously word of the legend got here, word of the accomplishment, word of the prize. There is a Sidney Crosby frenzy, no doubt. The scene when he arrived at the airport for the first time in August was unlike any that had ever greeted any Pittsburgh athlete, from a media standpoint. We've never seen anything like this.

You can train someone for 50 years, but still it comes down to whether you have 'it' or you don't, ... And whatever 'it' is, he has it. Whether it's charisma, charm, poise. Here's some 18-year-old kid who understands the big picture, and some of us are 50 and we are still trying to understand it.

Certainly, we want to get him over to meet Jason Bay.

I know he's had some training with the media, ... but I don't care what kind of training you've had, you either have his kind of poise or you don't.

In a lot of ways, it's the Sidney-Mario story.

I hope we get to that point. Those are nice challenges to have, but we're not there yet. It's an unprecedented time and we're riding the wave.

A lot of this became grabbing the bucking bronco and going, because you couldn't plan. What you want to do is, you don't want to get in the way of what's already happening.

As a policy, we're not going to comment and we're not going to confirm or deny any of these inquiries.

People called us cash strapped which wasn't necessarily true, ... We just didn't spend money we didn't have.

The similarity is the spontaneity of the unexpected great news, ... No one expected Mario's comeback announcement, and no one expected us to win the lottery.