Daily Roundup: January 4, 2013

Some of the team’s players initially thought they were the target of a hockey prank when plans for the Johnstown Tomahawks Charity Classic were unveiled. After all, who would believe that a group of Pittsburgh Penguins players would skate alongside the NAHL Tier II Junior A Tomahawks at Cambria County War Memorial Arena?

Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby knows eventually his team will get back to work. If it's sometime later this month, the normal 82-game regular season would turn into a 48-game dash, one that would seem to favour clubs like the Penguins.

Sidney Crosby’s been down the road too many times during the NHL’s seemingly interminable lockout to get too optimistic about the latest — and perhaps last — round of negotiations.

The Pittsburgh Penguins will play in an exhibition game in Johnstown, Wednesday January 9, 2013.