"Right winger Craig Adams, one of the Penguins' veterans, denied a Tribune-Review report Friday that players recently discussed a temporary captaincy with Sidney Crosby out of the lineup.

"Ask every person in this room right now, point-blank, and they'll deny it," Adams said Tuesday in the team's locker room at Consol Energy Center. "Knowing the people in this room, I don't think that could happen here. And for it to be a topic of conversation, for some of our fans to think it did happen, that's pretty sad."

General manager Ray Shero also denied that there was a meeting, based on his discussions with players.

The Tribune-Review stands by the original report."