Well, that didn’t take long.
Just hours after Matthew Barnaby went on the radio and said he’d heard that Sidney Crosby and Mario Lemieux had had a “big falling out,” Lemieux came out and denied it.
“It’s absolutely not true,” said Lemieux, per the club’s Twitter account. “It’s silly.”
Today marked the second time in less than two weeks that the Penguins had been forced to do damage control.
Last week, the Penguins insisted that they weren’t actually “mad at each other,” as Evgeni Malkin had put it after a bad loss to New Jersey.
“He did not mean we are mad at each other,” said Crosby. “He meant we are frustrated.”
The real news there wasn't so much what Lemieux said, but that he actually spoke ! So rare !
— Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) November 25, 2015