from Rosie DiManno of the Toronto Star,

The pillowy lips part to reveal a mouthful of ruin, a graveyard of tombstone teeth and mutilated gums.

There’s a gap between the lower bicuspids, a V-shaped hollow through which sibilant sounds emerge, a whistle of consonants and vowels.

Sidney Crosby is lisping.

“Thith is going to be the toughetht tetht yet.’’

Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinal against the Senators-at-home, he meant: Toughest. Test. Yet.

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