Ray Shero was nauseous.
Sitting with a number of his scouts on Monday evening, the New Jersey Devils general manager glanced up at the television screen at the Pittsburgh-Washington playoff game and saw a Penguin splattered on the ice.
“I was about 20 feet away from the TV. I didn’t know who it was …” Shero recalled.
“At first I thought it was Bryan Rust.”
Then someone in the room said: “No, it’s Sidney Crosby.”
The same Sidney Crosby who starred on the team during Shero’s run as GM of the Penguins from 2006-14.