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Kovacevic: Sullivan prioritizes respect over public ire

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Sidney Crosby can't beat the Rangers' Alexandar Georgiev on this first-period break Wednesday. - AP

NEW YORK -- Oh, he wanted to.

It's not like Mike Sullivan didn't have plenty he could have spouted off to the assembled media in the corridor outside the Penguins' locker room at Madison Square Garden late Wednesday night. He'd just witnessed his boys basically checking off every box of things he hates, after which the Rangers and Mika Zibanejad buried them, 4-3, in overtime.

So as Sullivan came our way, his stride purposeful, his expression stern, I allowed myself to wonder if this might be it. If this might finally be the moment he generates a juicy headline.

Nope.

This was as hot as it got:

Stop the presses, right?

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