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
There was a lot of firsts: my first game, first goal, first penalty, ... Everything seemed to be a first thing for me, so everything kind of watched it that way. But things have died down a little bit. Not totally, but a lot more than what it was at the start of the season.
Oh yeah, I noticed it. Everyone was standing up. He's a great player. I watched that playoff run.
Montreal and Toronto are two teams that I watched a lot growing up. Definitely, when the schedule came out these were the games I was looking forward to.
I watched 'Mighty Ducks.' 'Slapshot' when I was a little older.
When I watched the first game, it was tough because I think that was the time I realized it's probably going to be another four years before I had the opportunity. After that, I just became a fan. I was pulling for them and I wanted them to do well. It's unfortunate it didn't, but I said before Canada had a lot of expectations and they're not going to win gold every time.
It's tough right now. It's tough for everyone, I'm sure. It's tough for the people that watch us sometimes, too, because they want to see the team win, and trust me, we want to win as bad as they want to see us win.
It's not easy to watch the game at home on TV.
It's been awesome. Obviously, at the start, when I first met him and started to live with him, he's an easy guy to talk to. But at the same time, you're always still uncomfortable. It's a guy you grew up watching and idolizing and now you're living with him and playing with him. So right now it's been great. We get along great.
That's fine. That's the fun part about playing in the NHL: I grew up watching these guys and now I'm going to be playing against them, and that's special. But I can't change anything. You still have to shoot the same places, do the same things you did before.
Anytime he's got a chance to make a play, he makes it. He finds the guy's stick, or he puts it in the net. Just to watch him tonight was really fun.
Once I started watching the first game I became a fan. I totally forgot about the opportunity I had to maybe be there. I think it's always easy to say 'what if' and criticize, but the fact is it comes down to a one-game playoff. Whoever's the better team on that night's going to win.
He's an unbelievable player, ... It was fun just to watch him out there.
You can't afford to go out there and watch too much, ... If you get caught watching, you're not going to get to the puck and not going to make good plays.
We've been there a lot this year. We've fallen behind and climbed our way back, but it seems like one mistake we make and sometimes it costs us.