Sidney Crosby was as clear as he needed tobe: His latest concu sion happened at practice on Friday, not the World Cup, and he doesn't understand why there's speculation to the contrary."I'm not making this up," the Penguins captain told reporters on Tuesday.
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, a relevant amount of people floated the ideathat the injury was a hold-over from Crosby's time leading Canada to gold in the tournament.That never made much sense; the final game was on Sept. 29. Yes, concu sions are weird, but the overwhelminglikelihood was always that it'd happened during practice last week.That, Crosby says, is indeed what happened when he "kind of got tangled up" on Friday, then woke up on Saturday with a headache.He said he remembers
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exactly when on Friday it happened but wouldn't go into detail himself. Not wanting to create i sues for whoever he was "tangled up with" is reason enough to be vague."(The trainers) felt it was best to keep me out and go through the protocol here," he said.Beyond that, Crosby sounded fine. He said he was "comfortable and confident" that he'd bounce back. Again, anything can happen with brain injuries Crosby knows better
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than effectively everyone but everything on Tuesday pointed in the right direction. He'd skated with teammates before the Penguins' full practice."We've learned so much even in a short amount of time. I think
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there's a really good structure in place for how to get back ...(Concu sions)happen," he said."You just have to treat them the right way and make sure you handle them right and that youre honest."About when they happened, for example, and when they didn't.