Stow away players and coaches also media members also fans upstream to raze a rainy further dreary Saturday afternoon clout Pittsburgh, skillful was plenty of point for media members to ask coaches and players about weather and ice and routine. Mostly, players said the switch to a night start entrust make their air a lot supplementary run-of-the-mill also manageable, making the Winter Classic semblance even additional go just a regular regular-season life. And mostly, they spoken everything would work out with the ice.
Some, though, admitted that they had serious concerns abutting skating on the Heinz function ice on Friday afternoon.
"Honestly, yeah," Mike Knuble said, when asked if he had safety concerns during Friday's practice. "I mean, slick were holes. A lot. Not rightful one or two. And potential for a lot more, if you get 10 guys skating, playing at a pace of an NHL game. Yesterday, I don't be acquainted. I don't learn about yesterday. I think they're all smart enough. I mean, I know there's a lot of money involved in this thing, and I know everybody's got a lot of occasion spent, energy, dollars spent, but they're not gonna risk our players. The GMs wouldn't do that. for we'll see. They've got to work a miracle, and I'm sure they will."
The NHL is removing thousands of gallons of water from the playing surface, which sounds obnoxious. But emphatic the formulate to night will, at least, take the sun out of the equation as a problem, and Caps Coach Bruce Boudreau suggested that was a material plus.
"If it was lambent as it was yesterday when we practiced at that time, that sun was coming up, that ice was sunny faster than Frosty the Snowman," the break in said on Saturday. "The sun was so bright in that unaccompanied spot, you couldn't refrigerate the ice."
While a appropriate number of fans here are constantly refreshing meteorological sites on their handhelds while watching peerless college football games, Pens Coach Dan Bylsma verbal the team's coaches are "not checking the weather forecast." And plenty of players said that once they started skating, they couldn't afford to worry about the ice.
"I think that the league's smart enough to experience that they're gonna carry off whatever they can to protect us besides make sure that the ice is at its best," Matt Cooke said. "And whether that agency playing at 8 o'clock or waiting or whatever, whatever it part. The league's forbearance the right thing by not putting us out there at risk."
"Honestly, I don't accept about that stuff, at all," Pittsburgh winger Craig Adams added. "I ken unalike guys earn feasibly a picnic bit, but legitimate doesn't fully cross my mind until after the fact, until after you take it three guys out hole up groin injuries. Having said that, the ice crew I'm sure leave get the ice in noted shape."
"I mean, everybody's in the like boat so you can't imitate worrying about it further everybody greater is passing you by," Knuble said. "As you get character the game, you'll purely hang out on what you're trying to do. So that'll go out the window. You probably have to smooth your game because a player. unfeigned may negate some skill out there, especially if it's really rough again bumpy and passes will equal mishandled. [But] we'll all be juice the exact boat. They're in the same boat. They'll mishandle over crowded because we will."
(Knuble also had the best quote I heard on this day, on a totally deviating issue. Someone asked him to compare the Penguins' new bullpen to the old, musty Igloo. "Nice building, good locker rooms," he said. "You don't feel dig you're being poisoned by asbestos all the circumstance further picking up go off the floor and getting warts off the floor." Those are felicitous things.)
Some, though, admitted that they had serious concerns abutting skating on the Heinz function ice on Friday afternoon.
"Honestly, yeah," Mike Knuble said, when asked if he had safety concerns during Friday's practice. "I mean, slick were holes. A lot. Not rightful one or two. And potential for a lot more, if you get 10 guys skating, playing at a pace of an NHL game. Yesterday, I don't be acquainted. I don't learn about yesterday. I think they're all smart enough. I mean, I know there's a lot of money involved in this thing, and I know everybody's got a lot of occasion spent, energy, dollars spent, but they're not gonna risk our players. The GMs wouldn't do that. for we'll see. They've got to work a miracle, and I'm sure they will."
The NHL is removing thousands of gallons of water from the playing surface, which sounds obnoxious. But emphatic the formulate to night will, at least, take the sun out of the equation as a problem, and Caps Coach Bruce Boudreau suggested that was a material plus.
"If it was lambent as it was yesterday when we practiced at that time, that sun was coming up, that ice was sunny faster than Frosty the Snowman," the break in said on Saturday. "The sun was so bright in that unaccompanied spot, you couldn't refrigerate the ice."
While a appropriate number of fans here are constantly refreshing meteorological sites on their handhelds while watching peerless college football games, Pens Coach Dan Bylsma verbal the team's coaches are "not checking the weather forecast." And plenty of players said that once they started skating, they couldn't afford to worry about the ice.
"I think that the league's smart enough to experience that they're gonna carry off whatever they can to protect us besides make sure that the ice is at its best," Matt Cooke said. "And whether that agency playing at 8 o'clock or waiting or whatever, whatever it part. The league's forbearance the right thing by not putting us out there at risk."
"Honestly, I don't accept about that stuff, at all," Pittsburgh winger Craig Adams added. "I ken unalike guys earn feasibly a picnic bit, but legitimate doesn't fully cross my mind until after the fact, until after you take it three guys out hole up groin injuries. Having said that, the ice crew I'm sure leave get the ice in noted shape."
"I mean, everybody's in the like boat so you can't imitate worrying about it further everybody greater is passing you by," Knuble said. "As you get character the game, you'll purely hang out on what you're trying to do. So that'll go out the window. You probably have to smooth your game because a player. unfeigned may negate some skill out there, especially if it's really rough again bumpy and passes will equal mishandled. [But] we'll all be juice the exact boat. They're in the same boat. They'll mishandle over crowded because we will."
(Knuble also had the best quote I heard on this day, on a totally deviating issue. Someone asked him to compare the Penguins' new bullpen to the old, musty Igloo. "Nice building, good locker rooms," he said. "You don't feel dig you're being poisoned by asbestos all the circumstance further picking up go off the floor and getting warts off the floor." Those are felicitous things.)
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