PITTSBURGH Paul Martin isn't a snorer. "Hopefully, Brooksie isn't (either)," Martin said Friday. He was talking about Brooks Orpik, his defensive partner with the Pittsburgh Penguins and presumed roommate at the Winter Olympics. MORE: Pittsburgh's seven Olympians Martin, Orpik, Sidney Crosby, Chris Kunitz, Evgeni Malkin, Ju si Jokinen and Olli Maatta are, like 145 or so other NHL players, . Things over there, on a couple different levels, seem to range from "funny" to "scary," and the hockey players are about to get their taste. Let's start with the superficially funny stuff; the unfinished hotel rooms, the stray dogs and . Martin has dealt with it before, albeit not at the Olympics. Some of it, at least. "I had the dorm life for my first year at the University of Minnesota," he said. "Maybe we'll be back to the small beds, the food and all that kind of stuff." What about the dogs? "None of them." Orpik has lived in the athlete village once before, in 2010, and not much has changed. "The ones in Vancouver weren't any different, either," Orpik said. "I roomed with Anthony Molina Jersey Ryan Malone and it was the equivalent of a closet over here. It wasn't anything spectacular there either. We had a TV sitting on top of a chair. It was nothing special either, and we had a blast with it, so I don't think there will be any complaints from the athletes." "They do a good job supplying you with everything. They've had people over there giving us updates the last few days on how things are going, and they say everything is top notch." A cottage industry has sprung up around so-called " ," largely stemming from the construction that was still going on when media started to arrive earlier this week. Those aren't much of a concern for the competitors themselves, but "Some of the hotels and stuff like that, I've heard mixed reviews," Orpik said. "Hopefully our families are gonna be alright, but that's one of those things, you can't really focus on that. You just try to focus on what you're there for." Obviously, ; there were suicide bombings 400 miles east of Sochi in December. A jihadist group in Dagestan, the epicenter of the Islamic rebellion against Ru sia that has engulfed the Caucasus, claimed responsibility for those bombings and has threatened to strike the Games. On Friday, Turkish officials said a pa senger on an Istanbul-bound flight Friday and tried to hijack the plane to Sochi. That's the sort of atmosphere that has led to many players' families staying at home. That's not the case for Orpik. "I know my dad, there's no way I was talking him out of it. My wife watches a little too much news, so she gets more nervous every day, but I think they'll be fine," Orpik said. "The NHLPA has extra security. The NHL has extra security. USA Hockey has their own security. It's probably overkill with as much security as they have. They keep telling us that Sochi is probably the safest spot to be in of the surrounding area." MORE NHL: OLYMPICS SCHEDULE: Ian Desmond Jersey