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(Sports Network) - One of the highlights in the NHLs yearly schedule comes when Sidney Crosby makes his annual trip to Western Canada, but injury will prevent one of the leagues brightest stars from taking to the Rogers Arena ice on opening night. Dealing with their own injuries, the Vancouver Canucks wont mind Crosby sitting this one out as the Stanley Cup runner-ups open up the 2011-12 season against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Crosby has not played since January due to a concussion and will open the season on injured reserve as his return date is still up in the air. He did travel with the team but is not likely to play on the swing. "Im looking forward to getting on the road and starting the season," Crosby said. "Im happy to be out there and when the time comes Ill make sure Im ready, but to be honest, Im just happy to be out there and working hard. For a long time I wasnt able to do that, so its just nice to be out there and going hard." The Penguins will try to get their season off on the right foot without their captain and were able to register 106 points a season ago despite Crosby playing in just 41 games. That point total was the clubs highest since a 119-point campaign in 1992-93, but the absence of both Crosby and Evgeni Malkin due to a knee injury led to Pittsburgh being eliminated by Tampa Bay in the opening round of the postseason. While Crosby remains out, Malkin will be back in a Penguins uniform for the first time since suffering his season-ending injury on Feb. 4. Hell try to boost an offense that was still led by Crosbys 66 points despite the center missing half the season. Defenseman Kris Letang was Pittsburghs next-highest scorer with 50 points and Chris Kunitzs 23 goals ranked second to Crosbys 32. Pittsburgh will also have center Jordan Staal tonight after his 2010-11 debut was delayed until the Winter Classic because of injury, while the club is also hoping for bigger things this year from James Neal. Acquired from Dallas last February, Neal only had six points in 20 games after the trade. Blueliner Brooks Orpik, meanwhile, is questionable due to hernia surgery. The Penguins also added veteran winger Steve Sullivan this offseason, but their early success could depend on goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury, who put the club on his shoulders last year by going 36-20-5 with a career-best 2.32 goals-against average in 65 games. Pittsburgh, which will also visit Calgary and Edmonton over the weekend, will face a Vancouver squad tonight that is playing for the first time since its Game 7 loss to the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup Finals. The Canucks captured the Presidents Trophy last year with a league-high 117 points, but couldnt win one last home game versus the Bruins. Roberto Luongo opens the season in net for the Canucks with a bit of a chip on his shoulder. He earned a Vezina Trophy nomination with a 38-15-7 regular- season mark and 2.11 GAA before posting four shutouts in the playoffs, but was also lifted twice during the finals and gave up 20 goals in the seven games. Luongo will be missing some key pieces in front of him. Defenseman Christian Ehrhoff departed the club this offseason to sign a 10-year deal with Buffalo, while reigning Selke Trophy winner Ryan Kesler will miss the first month or so of the season due to offseason hip surgery. Kesler notched a career-high 41 goals last year and returned to practice for the first time on Wednesday, but wont rush himself back before hes ready. "I love to compete and I love to win," said Kesler. 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Bailey pounded the ground with his fist in disgust and the Pittsburgh Steelers commenced with their 34-17 dismantling of the Denver Broncos in the AFC title game following the 2005 season. That watershed afternoon of Jan. 22, 2006, sent the Steelers and Broncos on divergent paths, and they meet again Sunday in an AFC wild-card game at Sports Authority Field in snowy Denver. You can watch the live game on CTV and TSN.ca, with coverage underway NOW. You can also follow the Game Day blog on TSN.ca, and listen to the action live on TSN Radio in Toronto, Winnipeg and Montreal. "That game catapulted us to a Super Bowl victory," Pittsburgh defensive end Brett Keisel said. It sent the Broncos on a nosedive that would take them through three coaches, four quarterbacks, six defensive co-ordinators and a whole lot of misery before returning to the playoffs this year. The Steelers are 69-35 since that fateful contest, winning two titles and narrowly missing a third in a 31-25 loss to Green Bay in last years Super Bowl, rivalling their run in the 1970s. The Broncos have gone 44-52 with just one winning season and no playoff appearances. "You can look at the direction we both headed after that. They went up, we went down," Bailey said. "We havent been back, theyve won two since then. Its funny how it played out. But that was then, this is now. We have a chance to turn things around here and thats what we expect to do this weekend." The Broncos, who won the middling AFC West at 8-8, host the heavily favoured Steelers (12-4), who lost the AFC North on a tiebreaker to Baltimore, on whats expected to be a snowy Sunday afternoon in Denver. Memories of the pivotal 05 conference championship are fresh in the minds of the 16 Steelers and two Broncos — Bailey and linebacker D.J. Williams — who are still on their respective rosters. "We started getting hot in the playoffs, wasnt nobody that was going to stop us," Steelers linebacker Larry Foote recounted. "When we beat Indy, it didnt matter who we were going to play, we were going to get to the Super Bowl. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time." Bailey laments his lost shot at a Super Bowl that has eluded him throughout his stellar 13-year career that includes 11 Pro Bowls, a record for cornerbacks. "I remember it, but at the same time, its a new day. That was a long time ago," Bailey said. "Were just trying to move on from here and see what we can do with this team." Lynch has long since retired, so he has no chance to assuage the anguish of that afternoon six years ago. Now an analyst for Fox Sports, he said he still looks back on that lost opportunity more than he does on the Super Bowl title he did win. Early in the game the crowd was going crazy. "I remember a big third down, it appeared right when Ben threw it that Champ was going to the house," Lynch recalled. &"Hines Ward made a great play to get his hands on the ball.dddddddddddd The ball was hanging up there in slow-motion, and I knew what a competitor and tough player Hines was, but I was sure I was going to knock the ball out. And I put a lick on him like all licks. He got up smiling at me, first down. He also stuck his knee right up my quad, so I was gimpy the rest of the game, I could barely run." The Broncos would never lead and three hours later, they trudged off the field heads down while the Steelers celebrated their return to dominance. "It was a tough game, because, gosh we had a great opportunity and I believe to this day that if we get through that game, we go beat Seattle and go win the Super Bowl," Lynch said. Now, its the Steelers who are coming to town with all the experience, momentum and pedigree and the Broncos who are the young, untested, just-glad-to-be-here bunch. "Yeah, same thing, different team, right?" Bailey said. "Just kind of flipped it a little bit. And what did they do? They came here and beat our butts, so whos to say whats going to happen Sunday?" The oddsmakers have installed the Steelers as 8 1/2-point favourites despite an injury epidemic in Pittsburgh that has claimed tailback Rashard Mendenhall (knee) and could sideline All-Pro centre Maurkice Pouncey (ankle). The Steelers top tackler, safety Ryan Clark, is sitting out as a precaution because of a blood disorder thats exacerbated by altitude. A sprained left ankle wont keep Roethlisberger on the sideline, though. Several other members of the leagues best defence are banged up as they prepare for the Broncos throwback offence. Asked when he last defended the option, Steelers defensive guru Dick LeBeau cracked, "Probably when I was playing." The Broncos may have the leagues top ground game, but theyll be without their best run blocking in right guard Chris Kuper, who broke his left leg last week and will be replaced by Russ Hochstein and maybe Ryan Harris, who was re-signed Tuesday. Austin Sylvester is in line to get his first NFL action with fullback Spencer Larsen (knee) doubtful. And strong safety Brian Dawkins was ruled out of Denvers lineup with a nagging neck injury that might ultimately spell the end of his illustrious 16-year NFL career. Bailey doesnt mind being the dismissed team this time around. "It keeps the distractions away a little more," he said. "People arent hyping you as much and patting you on the back. People are whispering behind our back and telling us we (stink), and Id rather live like that than any other way." After all, nobody thought the Broncos would reach the playoffs after they started 1-4 and Tim Tebow supplanted Kyle Orton, then won seven of his first eight starts before losing his last three. During the skid, Tebow has completed just 30 of 73 passes (41 per cent) with one touchdown, four interceptions and 10 sacks to go with three lost fumbles. A two-time national champion at Florida, Tebow is looking to bounce back in a big way in the playoffs. "The kid does have some special qualities and he rises to the challenge on the big stage, and thats what the playoffs are all about," Lynch said. "Heres his opportunity." cheap nfl jerseys wholesale jerseys ' ' '
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