Yesterday was Mario Lemieux's 40th birthday. Sidney Crosby will be 18 and two months on Friday. But they both played last night (albeit poorly). That is neat.

[Sidney Crosby] said there were times he felt he was looking too much, too pedestrian. But there were other members of the Pittsburgh Penguins who looked far more nervous or rusty, including sniper Ziggy Palffy, who muffed an open-net opportunity early, when the Penguins dominated play with a string of power-play opportunities.

Incidentally, it's nice to see the word "sniper" returned to its pre-Malvo/Muhammad innocence.