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What do Melbournes A-League clubs think about each other?Is it hatred, like Sydney FC captain Alex Brosque so memorably expressed towards his Western Sydney rivals in the build-up to last weeks Sydney derby?Contempt? Disdain? Or perhaps even a begrudging respect?In years past, Victory dismissed the threat from Melbourne Heart, who might have won their fair share of derbies under their previous guise but couldnt match Victory in any other area.Heart was a dirty word at the club, with management preferring to refer to their upstart rivals as the other Melbourne club or something more colourful.Now its City surging in membership - albeit coming from a long way behind their established rivals - and interest in the build-up to the first Melbourne derby of the season.Put two players - Victorys James Donachie and Citys Anthony Caceres - in front of a microphone and theres no attempt to trash talk the other.But Donachie is clearly buying into the rivalry ahead of his first derby, and expects to transform on Saturday night once he walks onto the Etihad Stadium pitch.Im not going to use words like hate (but), when you cross the white line, Id go so far as thats the emotion youre feeling, he said.Right now, before the game, you stay calm. Obviously, you can see fans and everyone watching the game - things change when the whistle blows.The 23-year-old said he expected Saturdays game to match anything he experienced at former club Brisbane.I played in a grand final and that was pretty big but this will probably be the same if not better, he said.A crowd of more than 40,000 is expected for the match, with plenty of light blue in the crowd for the expected A-League debut of City signing Tim Cahill.Like City executive Simon Pearce, who said last week he now knew rather than believed the club would find success, the clubs fans are growing in ambition.Caceres said he was feeding off it.I get the feeling they believe that theres going to be one team in this city, he said.As players, we want to do all we can to prove that on the field.Caceres vowed not to repeat his last derby performance, when he was sent off in a raucous 2-2 draw at AAMI Park.That was the first and last of that, he said.Its something I wouldnt want to repeat but derbies are derbies. 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Kobe Bryant Shoes Outlet . -- Jacksonville wide receiver Cecil Shorts will likely be a game-time decision whether hell play Sunday in the Jaguars home game against the San Diego Chargers.After the Penguins paraded the Stanley Cup through the streets of Pittsburgh, Sidney Crosby took it to his hometown of Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Evgeni Malkin to Moscow and Phil Kessel to a childrens hospital in Toronto as part of the summer-long celebration.If theres one thing champions in the NHL have learned, it is to savor those moments because history says they wont happen back-to-back. No team has repeated as Cup champion since the salary-cap era began in 2005, and the last back-to-back winners were the Detroit Red Wings in 1997 and 1998.Sorry, Penguins. And sorry to the San Jose Sharks, as no team in the past eight seasons has lost in the final and gotten back the next year.The Chicago Blackhawks and Los Angeles Kings are rested from an unusually short spring, the Tampa Bay Lightning boast the deepest team in the league and the Washington Capitals are virtually unchanged after dominating the regular season. All those things, plus playing into June, stack the odds against the Penguins raising the Cup again in 2017.Youre coming off such a high, its going to be tough to get to that (level) right away, Pittsburgh defenseman Trevor Daley said. How you become a great team in this league is you have the hunger every night. Teams that are proven winners are usually the great teams, the L.A.s and Chicagos. Pittsburgh is right up there now in that conversation. Were hungry to do it again.Because they have two top goalies in Matt Murray and Marc-Andre Fleury, the Penguins are perhaps the best positioned team to repeat in recent history. That doesnt mean itll be easy.Online sportsbook Bovada set the Penguins and Blackhawks as co-Cup favorites with the Capitals, Lightning, Dallas Stars, St. Louis Blues and Sharks not far behind. It wouldnt be a surprise if any of those teams make it through a World Cup of Hockey-condensed regular season and a grueling division playoff format and get to celebrate in June.The parity in the league allows for a lot of teams to have the same goal and actually legitimately have a chance at it, said Washington winger Justin Williams, who won the Cup with Carolina in 2006 and Los Angeles in 2012 and 2014. Theres a handful of teams that have those aspirations and theyre real.Rather than parity, Commissioner Gary Bettman prefers the term competitive balance, which speaks not only to the lack of repeat champions and the death of NHL dynasties but the variance in playoff teams. Of the 30 teams, 24 have made the playoffs at least once over the past three seasons.Unless youre (chheering for) the team in the dynasty market, you could care less, Bettman said.dddddddddddd All you care about is that your team is competitive.Competition isnt the problem. Its so high that playoff teams cant miss a beat or fear theyll drop out. The Florida Panthers look like a team just beginning a run of playoff appearances with young stars like Aaron Ekblad and Aleksander Barkov, but president of hockey operations Dale Tallon knows itll come down to breaks and injuries because its going to be a battle to return to the playoffs.Its a battle because the top teams havent lost much.The Penguins made a few tweaks and will be without Cup-winner Murray to start the season, but they can turn to 2009 winner Fleury and still lean heavily on Crosby, Malkin and defenseman Kris Letang. Elsewhere in the East, the Lightning re-signed Steven Stamkos, the Capitals are primed for another run with Alex Ovechkin and Vezina Trophy winner Braden Holtby, and the Montreal Canadiens should be back in contention with all-world goalie Carey Price healthy after missing most of last season with a knee injury.Chicago has cycled pieces in and out while winning the Cup in 2010, 2013 and 2015, but the core of Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane and Duncan Keith is as strong as ever. The Blackhawks would have liked to go deeper in last years playoffs, but not doing so could pay dividends this season as it has in the past.It might be good for the guys to have a longer offseason and come back hungry for the start of the season, defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson said.Trading off years with the Boston Bruins 2011 championship mixed in, the Blackhawks and Kings know all too well about the Cup hangover that the Penguins will try to avoid. Peaking at playoff time and maintaining that level amid injuries and bounces takes a lot, plus the system is skewed against back-to-back champions.Its more hard than before when teams were really dominating and could spend so much on salaries and they can buy different players, said Blackhawks winger Marian Hossa, who lost in the final in 2008 with Pittsburgh and 2009 with Detroit before winning three times with Chicago. In this modern day, its extremely hard. ... Its really, really hard to repeat.---AP Sports Writer Will Graves in Pittsburgh and AP Hockey Writer Larry Lage in Toronto contributed to this report.---Follow Stephen Whyno on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/SWhyno ' ' '