VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The way Conor Sheary sees it, as long as somebody at PPG Paints Arena is saying his name, that’s probably a good thing.
Call him anything you want. Just don’t call him late for dinner.
Cheesy jokes aside, Sheary really doesn’t care if you pronounce his name SHARE-ee or SHEER-ee — although for the record, it is the former, not the latter.
“Honestly since I was even like 10 years old, in little-kid tournaments, every announcer was always ‘SHEER-ee,’ ” Sheary said Saturday following the Penguins’ morning skate at Rogers Arena. “It wasn’t something that bothered me too much.