Sidney Crosby said the wrist that he nearly had surgery on two months ago isn’t bothering him.

Neither, it seems, is the report out of Ottawa last week that he had been arrested after a traffic violation.

Crosby participated in an informal workout with some Penguins teammates at Consol Energy Center Monday, then pronounced himself to be 100 percent.

“I feel really good,” he said. “The wrist isn’t something I even think about.”

Crosby, who said he came “pretty close” to having surgery on his right wrist this summer, said he was injured on a hit by St. Louis right winger Ryan Reaves.

“I got hit by Reaves and I just jammed it,” he said. “It was caught under me.”

The injury affected Crosby’s play during the playoffs, although he consistently denied then that he had been hurt, and he attempted to correct it with rest.

When that failed to resolve the issue, surgery became a front-burner option.

It was determined, however, that he should try injections before having an operation, and the injections - “two, in about a month,” he said - worked.

“(Surgery) is just something you want to avoid if you can,” he said. “Fortunately, I was able to avoid it.”

He couldn’t, however, duck the publicity that came with an Ottawa Sun report that he had been arrested last week.

Crosby, who was in Colorado at the time he was purported to be having a run-in with police in Ontario, knew he was not guilty of anything, but it took a while for the rest of the world to catch on.

“It’s just one of those things,” he said. “I didn’t even bother with it. It was just nonsense. You just try to continue about your day.

“For five or 10 minutes, it’s something I had to make a phone call about. But I didn’t worry about it after that.”