sby sustained a concussion following hard hits in successive games on Jan. 1 and 5, 2011, he was almost universally considered to be the best player in the game. With 32 goals and 66 points in 41 games, he was on pace for the NHL's best offensive season in 15 years -- but he wouldn't play again for nearly 11 months.With Crosby off the ice for three-quarters of this season, Malkin has risen to such best-in-the-game acclaim during an Art Ross Trophy-winning season in which he reached the 50-goal level for the first time. And it is Malkin who is now on the top line, with Chris Kunitz and 40-goal scorer James Neal, while Crosby is on the second line with Steve Sullivan and Pascal Dupuis.Still, forward Craig Adams cautioned that while the Penguins are excited about having Crosby, Malkin and Matt Cooke back - Cooke was suspended for a quarterfinals series loss to Tampa Bay last spring -- they cannot automatically assume their return guarantees enormous success."Each team is its own team and what you do during the season contributes to your identity and how you're going to play,Tony Esposito Authentic Jersey," Adams said. "Last year was last year and this year is different and we're certainly happy to have those guys in the lineup. We do have confidence in and feel good about our team and feel like we've got a good chance to win."While the Flyers are an exceedingly difficult matchup in the first round -- Pittsburgh and Philadelphia were second and third in points in the Eastern Conference -- they have visibly motivated Crosby to play at an exceedingly-high level.Only six weeks into his NHL career in 2005, several of Crosby's teeth were badly damaged by a stick-to-the-mouth hit from tough guy Derian Hatcher, yet Crosby returned to score the game-winning goal in overtime. A season later, he had his first career three-goal game against the Flyers, plus a six-point game.Crosby has 27 goals and 66 points in 39 regular season games against the Flyers, plus six goals and nine assists in 11 playoff games -- eight of them Penguins wins.When the Flyers last saw Crosby in the playoffs,Authentic Brent Seabrook Jersey, he was scoring the tying and go-ahead goals as the Penguins rallied from a three-goal deficit to beat the Flyers 5-3 and eliminate them in Game 6 in 2009.Crosby knows a playoff series that matches teams with a combined 211 points will be more competitive, more combative still."That's usually what happens with rivalries and the intensity and everything that comes with it," he said. "That's to be expected,Marian Hossa Authentic Jersey, that's a good thing, but the playoffs are different. You only get a few (scoring) chances, it's a little bit tighter and all those things become magnified."And it's all Crosby ever wanted again, even if he realizes how difficult it will be for the Penguins --even with him back on the ice -- to reach the Eastern Conference Semifinals."We're confident. I don't think we're more confident than usual," Crosby said. "We're just preparing like we usually would. That's the important thing of having the right mindset through the year, mak