Sidney Crosby is feeling the effects of the shortened preseason in his adjustment to playing with a new linemate.<\/p>\n
Crosby mentioned having a week less<\/a> to prepare for the season when talking about skating alongside Nick Robertson Monday in his annual appearance on Mark Madden\u2019s radio show<\/a> on 105.9 The X.<\/p>\n The NHL\u2019s new labor agreement gave teams less than two weeks between the start of training camp and the start of the regular season.<\/p>\n In Crosby\u2019s case, that has impacted his ability to adjust to Robertson taking over what was once Bryan Rust\u2019s place on his wing opposite Rickard Rakell.<\/p>\n \u201dIt\u2019s a shortened camp this year, so we have a lot less time to play together\u2026 but I think we\u2019ve gotten better as it\u2019s gone along,\u201d Crosby said Monday about Robertson.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s a guy that\u2019s got a lot of speed, a really good shot, so just want to try to find him in good areas to get that shot off. And he works hard on both sides of the puck, so hopefully we can force some turnovers and he can create with his speed.\u201d<\/p>\n Crosby wasn\u2019t the only member of the Penguins mentioning the impact of the shortened preseason Monday. Kyle Dubas said<\/a> in his season-opening press conference<\/a> he felt Joel Blomqvist was hurt by the Penguins only having four preseason games to split between him, Art\u016brs \u0160ilovs and Sergei Murashov.<\/p>\n Crosby also discussed his retirement timeline in his radio appearance. As he\u2019s mentioned repeatedly this offseason, he said he\u2019s hoping to play for multiple years.<\/p>\n The Penguins captain also said he sees the 2030 Olympics as too far ahead to think about, but considers the 2028 World Cup of Hockey a \u201cgreat target.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I say I don\u2019t know, that\u2019s the truth,\u201d Crosby said about his career timeline. \u201cI think, when you get to my age\u2026 it comes down to a lot of things. It\u2019s how you feel physically, how you feel mentally. Just as far as loving it, and having the passion to compete and put what you need to put into it on a daily basis, that\u2019s got to be there.<\/p>\n \u201cRight now, it\u2019s there. I feel great. I still love it just as much as I did coming into the league.\u201d<\/p>\n Crosby is set to kick off his age-39 campaign Wednesday when the puck drops at 7:30 p.m. ET for a playoff rematch at the Philadelphia Flyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sidney Crosby is feeling the effects of the shortened preseason in his adjustment to playing with a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[257,385,99],"class_list":["post-864795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-general","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}