from Rob Rossi of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,

It's been called “The House Sid Got Built.” And it's true that Consol Energy Center might not exist, let alone stand as the center of the hockey universe Wednesday night, were it not for a pingpong ball delivering Sidney Crosby to the Penguins.

But even before that fortuitous bounce almost a dozen years ago, somebody else preserved our city as an NHL town. It happened when Sid was still “The Next One” and Mario Lemieux was skating on “the last one” (as in healthy hips).

Just so happens, too, that this somebody still won't own up to all he did to keep “Pittsburgh” in front of the Penguins.

I'm talking about Gary Bettman.

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