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Speaker 1: There is only one Sidney Crosby. So you win three

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Speaker 1: nothing you want to know? And it was pretty concise

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Speaker 2: Sid? I think we were just I thought we were

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Speaker 1: What's it like for you in your twenty first season

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Speaker 3: What's that do for your energy? Because you were that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it helps. I mean, you know, you

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Speaker 1: How do the kids treat you? Like in the room?

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Speaker 1: Short short term answer here, but what's it been like

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Sydney Cosby here on the X. This

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Speaker 3: What makes that special?

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Speaker 1: Now, one are your goals now, and let me cut

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Speaker 1: We know, one thing that motivates you, you want to

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Speaker 1: Is it different too, because I'm not saying you guys

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Speaker 1: How far away are the Penguins from being as good

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Speaker 1: I know you hate the trade talk, and we both

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Speaker 1: know that the best way to shut it down is

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Speaker 1: for you guys to win.

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Speaker 3: Don't you feel that way?

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Speaker 2: It's a yeah, you're right, I mean yeah, winning just

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Speaker 2: there's nothing more than I'd love is just to you know,

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Speaker 2: about even you know, going into that discussion.

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Speaker 1: You know you've become a really good interview. Do you

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Speaker 1: remember the first time we talked our our buddy the

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Speaker 1: Riz brought you down to that restaurant at the hotel across.

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Speaker 3: The street from the arena, steel Head.

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Speaker 1: The Steelhead, right, you were eighteen years old, your parents

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Speaker 3: It was just Dawston. Do you remember that at all?

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Speaker 1: I do.

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Speaker 2: It was packed too, I remember it was. It was

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Speaker 2: think in one of the corners right right, yeah, yeah, no,

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Speaker 2: it was right. It was right across the street from

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Speaker 3: Course it was packed. Sidney Crossby just got to town.

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Speaker 1: In closing, as always, I ask are you married and engaged?

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Speaker 3: They're going to be a father soon.

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Speaker 2: Nothing new up to you there.

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Speaker 1: Someday we're gonna break news. I swear to God, sid

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Speaker 1: As always, it's a it's a pleasure having you on.

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Speaker 1: Good job last night. We'll see it at the opener tomorrow night.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: That's our buddy, Sidney Crosby, Penguins one to know. I'm

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Speaker 1: Mark Madden. One oh five nine.

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