Sidney Crosby
Sidney Crosby
Sidney Patrick Crosby, ONSis a Canadian professional ice hockey player who serves as captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League. Crosby was drafted first overall by the Penguins out of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. During his two-year major junior career with the Rimouski Océanic, he earned back-to-back CHL Player of the Year awards and led his club to the 2005 Memorial Cup final. Nicknamed "The Next One", he was one of the most highly regarded...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth7 August 1987
CityCole Harbour, Canada
CountryCanada
We didn't give up. We tried to keep coming and we got a bounce on Roy's goal.
We wanted to get a good start, but I don't think we've had the best first period the last couple of games. I'm sure it's something we thought about a little bit more, knowing the intensity they were going to play with being an important game for them. We knew they were going to play hard. I think we just tried to match that.
Whether you're trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, I've always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether it's as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that.
I was too close, so I tried to back off and whack it. I didn't get it.
I just saw a little hole between the two D-men and I tried to hit it hard and break through and always try to make a move there,
I gave it my best shot, tried to have the best rookie year I could.
It wasn't our best game but we tried to regroup and stay with it. The big difference was Marc. He kept us in it. We'll take it.
When you go through a time like we have, you go to basics. Get the puck at the net and play simple hockey, and try to get back (to winning) that way.
When you don't gain momentum and you're in the box, it's tough.
We keep digging ourselves holes and you can't do that, ... We have to start taking the play to the other team.
We believe in a lot of the same things. I'm interested to learn about anything, any way I can improve myself. And I think it's a two-way thing where he's trying to find things that interest the players and make it fun for them to improve.
With Palffy and Gonchar, those are some real offensive players, ... It should be a fun team to watch, definitely.
Being a successful hockey player is overcoming when guys are shadowing you and out-thinking them. It makes it that much more worthwhile when a guy is shadowing you and you get a quick opening and you put the puck in the net.
Everything clicked. Everything was working together, and we did all the little things. We played with a lot of confidence.