Sidney Crosby doesn't blame anyone for the chatter.

The Pittsburgh Penguins superstar captain knows his team is one in transition. The three-time Stanley Cup champion and two-time Olympic gold medallist knows fans, and media, enjoy speculating about potential landing spots should he ever decide time is up in the city where he's spent his entire 20-season career.

That doesn't make it any easier to hear.

"I understand it. It's not something that you want to discuss," Crosby told a small group of reporters this week at the NHL/NHLPA player media tour at a luxury hotel on the Las Vegas strip. "You'd rather be talking about who we're getting at the [trade] deadline or where we're at [in the division playoff race].

"That's the hard part about losing. I think everybody thinks that the losing

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