Real or not real?  Sidney Crosby cleared for full contact.  I have tears in my eyes.  Intern Jeff Skinner is wearing frequency-cancelling headphones but can still hear the screaming.  My birthday continues unabated.

I’m wearing my Pens socks and had my Pens hat on this morning, but I should have just gone for the full jersey today.

You can read and watch here [link] but this is all you need to see:

And this is me, right now (click for real-time Pants impression).

I’ll contain the whooping for a moment.  Sid’s not going to do anything bananas like play tonight against Washington – he’s obviously not there yet.  But full contact practice and then see how things go… sorry, I just have to WHOOOOOOP!