CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa . -- Honestly, Ian Cole says, he doesn't know what will happen come 3:01 p.m. on Monday.
OK, he jokes that he does know for sure that Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin won't be moved at the NHL's trade deadline.
Through it all this season -- Cole has lost his job and regained it, even lost three teeth blocking a slap shot with his face -- the defenseman has never, ever lost his sense of humor. Or his professionalism.
After eight years in the league, he knows this is a business, never more so than at the NHL's trade deadline.
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