“I understand it,” Crosby told Daily Faceoff when asked about the speculation he could leave the only NHL team he’s ever played for. “It’s not something that you want to discuss. You’d rather be talking about who we’re getting at the [Trade] Deadline or where we’re at as far as are we No. 1, 2 or 3 in the division. But it’s one of those things that’s a hard part about losing. Everybody thinks that losing is, the buzzer goes, you lose the game, and that sucks, but there’s so much more than that. It’s the turnover, it’s the unknown, the uncertainty, the question marks.”

“That’s the stuff that’s tough. And it makes you appreciate all those years that we’re competing and going after that big acquisition every single Trade Deadline. I don’t think I took it for granted, but I definitely appreciate it that much more now.”

“It doesn’t change my approach,” Crosby said. “I still go out there trying to win every single game and be the best that I can be. And I think that youth and having that energy around you isn’t a bad thing, either. We’ve got a lot of hungry guys, a lot of competition for spots. So you just try to find different things that you can feed off of and still continue to learn through it.”

“I mean, I’m answering something that… Let’s put it this way, it’s always a possibility, you know?” Brisson told Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic when asked if Crosby would consider a trade. “It’s been three years they haven’t made the playoffs. It all depends on how Sid is going to be and how the team is going to do. I maintain the same position that I do believe that he should be playing playoff hockey every year, in my opinion.”