Tom McMillan
Tom McMillan
Thomas Michael "Tom" McMillan, PCis a Canadian political scientist and former politician...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 October 1945
CountryCanada
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We picked Sidney at 4:30 on July 22 and the phones started ringing immediately at 4:31,
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No matter what other plans are out there, this is the best plan.
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For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.
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With the Internet and 24-hour talk radio and sports cable stations, Sidney Crosby has been known for years ... As big a story as Mario was, the Canadian media didn't come to training camp. It's just a different media world.
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We've tuned it down to a mild roar. We've got to let him play hockey a little bit. That's the best marketing of all.
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A lot of this became grabbing the bucking bronco and going, because you couldn't plan. What you want to do is, you don't want to get in the way of what's already happening.
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As a policy, we're not going to comment and we're not going to confirm or deny any of these inquiries.
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There is going to be a wonder player coming along every 15 or 20 years. But what makes this story unique is that the Mario story is unique and he's still here for Sidney to play with. When Mario came to Pittsburgh, he didn't have a Mario to play with or to counsel him or advise him. He was on his own.
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I know he's had some training with the media, ... but I don't care what kind of training you've had, you either have his kind of poise or you don't.
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Certainly, we want to get him over to meet Jason Bay.
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I hope we get to that point. Those are nice challenges to have, but we're not there yet. It's an unprecedented time and we're riding the wave.
In a lot of ways, it's the Sidney-Mario story.
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The first time most people here will see Sidney Crosby on the ice will be at training camp, including us, other than our scouts. Obviously word of the legend got here, word of the accomplishment, word of the prize. There is a Sidney Crosby frenzy, no doubt. The scene when he arrived at the airport for the first time in August was unlike any that had ever greeted any Pittsburgh athlete, from a media standpoint. We've never seen anything like this.
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You can train someone for 50 years, but still it comes down to whether you have 'it' or you don't, ... And whatever 'it' is, he has it. Whether it's charisma, charm, poise. Here's some 18-year-old kid who understands the big picture, and some of us are 50 and we are still trying to understand it.