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Practice report: Penguins prepare to play after two-week layoff

These guys have played hockey for most of their lives.

They've played it for fun.

They've played it for money.

But the Penguins haven't played it in two weeks -- not in an actual game setting, anyway -- which injects an element of uncertainty into their meeting with the Sharks Sunday at 1:08 p.m. at PPG Paints Arena.

While it's not unusual for individuals to sit out a couple of weeks, or even a lot more, because of an injury, it only happens to an entire team when there's an Olympic break.

Or, it turns out, a pandemic.