New York. It’s often said that practice games mean nothing, but no one seems to have enlightened Sidney Crosby.
He threw down the gloves and started fighting as Pittsburgh rallied against Buffalo last night.
– It wasn’t quite as I planned, I even think I caught the wrong person, and the icon smiled after that.
It was early in the second period of a preseason battle at Keybank Center in Buffalo that Sidney Crosby got into a brawl.
Longtime teammate Kris Letang was double tackled by the Sabers’ duo of Peyton Cribbs and Tyson Jost and the Penguins captain didn’t want to see it. So he surrendered to Krebs and it ended up being the ninth fight of his NHL career.
– I thought they drove over Tangier, but I don’t know. It wasn’t quite what I planned, and I think I got the wrong guy, Crosby says with an apologetic smile afterward.
– This is what happens.
In the same game, the Penguins found themselves down 3-1, after a goal and an assist by Buffalo’s Swedish sniper Viktor Olofsson – but they rallied and eventually won 7-4. Marcus Pettersson scored one goal and played forward for one, while Erik Karlsson and Rickard Rakell were noted for each attacking play.
The New Jersey Devils were far from regular teams on the ice in the rematch against the New York Islanders — resting Jesper Bratt and Jack Hughes, among others — but it didn’t matter. They won 3-0 and are therefore unbeaten during this year’s pre-season. They played seven matches, winning seven of them.
