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Penguins ‘excited’ to hit the ice again

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The Penguins set up in the four-corners passing drill Sunday in Cranberry. - DEJAN KOVACEVIC / DKPS

CRANBERRY, Pa. -- Dominik Simon, Jamie Oleksiak, Derick Brassard and Olli Maatta took their talents, as well as some suntan lotion, to South Beach.

Only there was no sun.

"Rained the whole time," Simon lamented when I asked how he spent the Penguins' weeklong break that wound down Sunday with a return to practice at the Lemieux Sports Complex. "Funny, we go to Miami, and we saw through the clouds for maybe 10 minutes."

Jack Johnson flew to Fort Lauderdale to visit family, and he encountered the same clouds but also couldn't get much sleep because of the blessing that is having young children bouncing around by sunrise.

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