Former Penguins GM Shero on Crosby hit: 'I really felt ill'

Forward Sidney Crosby and GM Ray Shero of the Pittsburgh Penguins answer questions during a press conference on Jan. 31, 2012 at CONSOL Energy Center. (Jamie Sabau/Getty Images)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.

The same…