Crowd reactions during Penguins’ practices are pretty common, pretty vocal and are almost always directed at one of the future Hall of Famers producing an outrageous feat of skill.



One of the loudest reactions on Monday was reserved for a backup goalie.



Casey DeSmith, one year after supplanting Tristan Jarry as the man who plays behind Matt Murray, is showing no signs of slowing down and put on quite a show during the final day of training camp scrimmages at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex on Monday.



“What an athlete,” Zach Aston-Reese said. “The guy is awesome.”



DeSmith was forced to deal with the best line in training camp, the combination of Sidney Crosby, Daniel Sprong and Jake Guentzel.



Sprong fired a rocket that DeSmith was able to handle, but the rebound trickled toward Crosby. A Phil Kessel back check — “Phil kind of saved me there,” DeSmith said — disrupted Crosby enough that...