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Cole Harbour MHA. Cap Hit. NHL Rights. He's the best player in the game today , Wayne Gretzky Nov 4th, NHL. More News from eprinkside. Crosby missed the first 20 games of the —12 season due to the lingering effects of his concussion. He returned on November 21, in a game against the New York Islanders, scoring two goals and two assists in a 5—0 shutout for the Penguins. Despite passing a successful ImPACT test, Crosby decided not to return on the ice until he felt perfectly fine, stating that he also must "listen to [his] body".
Crosby returned to action on March 15, , scoring an assist in a 5—2 win against the New York Rangers. Despite only playing 22 games, Crosby recorded 29 assists to go with 8 goals for 37 points, including his th career point. Crosby's Penguins were defeated in the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, losing to the Montreal Canadiens in seven games. Crosby had 19 points in 13 games in the playoffs, though through seven games against the Canadiens, he had only one goal and four assists.
Game 7 was also the last game to be played at Mellon Arena, the Penguins' home rink since the start of the franchise. The two skated for about five minutes before being joined on the ice by a group of young hockey fans all wearing Lemieux's 66 or Crosby's 87 jerseys. In the —11 season, Crosby had a game point streak, which began November 5, against the Anaheim Ducks and ended December 28, against the New York Islanders.
During this streak, he had 27 goals including three hat-tricks and 24 assists for 51 points. However, neither Crosby nor Malkin were available to play in the All-Star Game due to injuries, and rookie Jeff Skinner along with Paul Stastny were named as replacements. After experiencing several concussion symptoms, Crosby did not return for the rest of the regular season, and he missed the playoffs.
The Penguins were further crippled when Evgeni Malkin suffered a torn ACL and MCL, taking him out for the rest of the season and leaving the Penguins without their two highest-scoring players. Despite Crosby's injury and subsequent absence for the final 41 games of the season, he finished as the Penguins' leading scorer.
His 66 points in 41 games were 16 points ahead of the second-highest team scorer, defenceman Kris Letang. Crosby was selected to represent Canada at the Winter Olympics and was later named team captain. Canada won gold, with Crosby contributing one goal and two assists in six games. He scored his only goal in the final against Sweden, further establishing his reputation as "a player who rises up in big games".
In , Crosby captained Canada to its first World Championship title since , with the team winning all 10 games and scoring 66 goals. Crosby, scoring four goals and seven assists in nine games, became the 26th member of the Triple Gold Club. He is the first member of the club to captain all three championship teams, and the first member to be a first overall NHL draft pick. As captain and first line centre for Canada, Crosby played with different line mates in almost every game as the coaching staff struggled to find players capable of keeping pace with the superstar centre at the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, and again at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.
Crosby's fellow countryman and Olympic teammate, Rick Nash, was questioned by the media about this, at one point saying, "I think he's a tough guy to keep up with. He's so fast. The way he thinks about the game seems like it's far beyond everyone else's process. It's the same thing in the last Olympics, keep shuffling around until you found something that fit. His anticipation when the other team has the puck is so high, he knows where it's going ahead of time.
He can pick off passes, make you make errors. And then he also knows where people are located on the ice, so he can turn that turnover into a scoring chance. Following Crosby's Olympic gold medal victory with Canada in , it was announced that his stick and glove were missing. On March 10, the items were found: Crosby's stick had been placed in a shipment bound for the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the shipment was intercepted in Toronto and his glove was found in a hockey bag belonging to Olympic teammate and Boston Bruins' centre Patrice Bergeron, whose stall was beside Crosby's in the locker room.
In , he signed a six-year endorsement contract with Adidas. Crosby also has endorsement deals with Bell, Tim Hortons and Gatorade. In early , Crosby sustained a concussion that left him sidelined for the rest of the season and for most of the —12 campaign.
He also garnered 58 assists for a total of points, enough to tie with Alexander Ovechkin for second in league points, trailing only the Vancouver Canucks' Henrik Sedin's Crosby won the Mark Messier Leadership Award, getting recognized as a "superior leader within the sport, setting a positive example through on-ice performance, motivation of team members and a dedication to the community".
This was the second time he had received this honour, the other being in January , during the award's first year when it was presented monthly. He was also included on NHL's all-decade second team of s.
After omitted from Canada's Olympic team in , Crosby was named to the Canadian roster on December 30, , as an alternate captain for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. He scored the game-winning shootout goal for Canada in the second game of the preliminary round against Switzerland. After going pointless in the quarter- and semi-final against Russia and Slovakia respectively, Crosby scored the winning goal 7 minutes and 40 seconds into overtime against the United States in the gold medal game.
The goal has later become known as the "Golden Goal" due to it being scored in the gold medal game. It is also regarded by some as "Canada's most iconic sports moment". Crosby continues to be active in the community in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia. He created the Sidney Crosby Foundation in , an organization committed to providing support to charities benefiting children. In , he launched an inaugural Hockey School in Cole Harbour. His "Little Penguins Program" has provided free equipment and lessons to more than ten thousand local youngsters in Pittsburgh.
Crosby's absence from the Penguins' line-up served as a stepping stone for teammate Evgeni Malkin, who, now in his second season, was developing into a superstar in his own right. Pittsburgh finished the regular season as Atlantic Division champions and just two points shy of the first-seeded Montreal Canadiens. In a rematch of the previous year's opening round, the Penguins began the playoffs facing the Ottawa Senators, whom they quickly swept in four games.
After then defeating the New York Rangers and archrival Philadelphia Flyers, each in five games, the Penguins reached the final round for the first time since , to face the Detroit Red Wings. After being shut-out as a team for the first two games of the series, Crosby scored the first two goals of game three as the series shifted to Pittsburgh to fuel a 3—2 win.
The Penguins lost the next game and despite staving off defeat in game five, they were overcome by the Red Wings in six games. Crosby finished the playoffs with 27 points 6 goals and 21 assists in 20 games , tying Conn Smythe-winner Henrik Zetterberg 13 goals and 14 assists in 22 games for the playoff scoring lead.
Early in the following season, on October 18, , Crosby scored one goal and three assists to surpass benchmarks of goals, assists, and points for his career.
On the play in which Crosby scored, teammate Evgeni Malkin assisted to record his own th point. As a result, Crosby had a team trainer cut the puck in half so both players could commemorate the achievement. Minor injury troubles kept Crosby from five games early in the season as he was listed day-to-day, but he was, for the most part, able to bounce back from the previous injury-riddled season and stay healthy.
He recorded 33 goals and 70 assists to finish third in league scoring, as Evgeni Malkin captured his first career Art Ross Trophy. Entering the playoffs as the defending Prince of Wales Trophy winners, the Penguins defeated the Philadelphia Flyers in the opening round before meeting the Washington Capitals for a highly publicized second-round matchup.
The series was heavily followed as it pitted Ovechkin of the Capitals against both Crosby and Malkin, who together finished as the league's top three scorers that season. In the second game, Crosby and Ovechkin recorded matching three-goal efforts for their first career playoff hat tricks in a 4—3 Capitals victory.
Despite being down 2—0 in the series, Crosby and the Penguins won the next three games and eventually defeated the Capitals in a seventh and deciding game, in which Crosby added another two goals. In explanation of the change of heart, Crosby said, "We didn't touch the trophy last year, and obviously we didn't have the result we wanted Although we haven't accomplished exactly what we want Crosby's second NHL season also saw significant improvements for the Penguins franchise as a whole, as the emergence of Calder Trophy-winner Evgeni Malkin and runner-up Jordan Staal complemented the club's offence.
As a result, the Penguins jumped from last place in the Eastern Conference the previous season to fifth for the club's first playoff appearance since Playing the Ottawa Senators in the opening round, Crosby scored a goal in his Stanley Cup playoff debut in a 6—3 loss.
He finished the series with five points in five games as the Penguins were ousted by the eventual Stanley Cup runner-up. Following the Penguins defeat, Crosby was named Pittsburgh's team captain on May 31, , making him at 19 years, 9 months, and 24 days the youngest team captain in NHL history. During the season, the Penguins had offered him the captaincy, but he had turned it down. In the press conference naming him the team captain, he explained:.
Pearson Award in addition to his previously-clinched Art Ross Trophy. Pearson, and only the second youngest player ever to win the Hart after Gretzky. Midway through the subsequent season, Crosby recorded a Gordie Howe hat-trick on December 20, , in a game against the Boston Bruins.
His first assist came 55 seconds into the first period. At of the same period, Crosby scored to give the Penguins a 2—0 lead.
Then, five minutes and nine seconds into the second frame, Crosby fought ex-Penguin defenceman Andrew Ference to complete the hat-trick. This was Crosby's first NHL fight.
In NHL's first Winter Classic with a record crowd of 71, fans in attendance , Crosby scored the shootout winner in heavy snowfall to defeat the Buffalo Sabres. However, two weeks later, on January 18, , Crosby suffered a high ankle sprain crashing leg-first into the boards in a game against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
As a result, he missed the All-Star Game, to which he was named a starter. After missing 21 games, he returned on March 4 against the Lightning and earned an assist. However, two games after his return, he felt his ankle was not up to shape and decided that he needed more time for it to heal.
Crosby consequently sat out of the Penguins' next seven games and returned on March 27, , to help the Penguins defeat the New York Islanders 3—1. Despite his injury-shortened campaign, Crosby still managed 72 points in just 53 games. In his second NHL season, Crosby built on his rookie success. His success against the Flyers continued as just over six weeks later, on December 13, he recorded the first six-point game of his career one goal and five assists.
The multi-point effort vaulted Crosby into the NHL scoring lead, which he would retain for the remainder of the season. He finished the —07 with 36 goals and 84 assists in 79 games to become the first teenager to lead the NHL in scoring since Wayne Gretzky in Being only 19 years old at the time, he became the youngest player in NHL history to win the Art Ross Trophy and the youngest scoring champion in any major North American professional sport.
Scoring a tournament-best eight goals and eight assists in nine games, he became the youngest player ever to win a World Championship scoring title. Despite his performance, Canada failed to medal, being shut-out by Finland 5—0 in the bronze medal game.
Crosby was named the tournament's top forward and to the competition's all-star team. By his second season, he led the NHL with points to capture the Art Ross Trophy, becoming the youngest player and the only teenager to win a scoring title in any major North American sports league.
Pearson Award for most outstanding player as judged by his peers. He started the —08 season with the team's captaincy and subsequently led them to the Stanley Cup Finals, where they were defeated by the Detroit Red Wings in six games. The Penguins returned to the Finals against Detroit the following year and won in seven games; Crosby became the youngest captain in NHL history to win the Stanley Cup. Internationally, Crosby has represented Canada on numerous occasions. Playing against the United States in the gold medal game, he scored the game-winning goal in overtime.
Crosby captained Team Canada at the Winter Olympics, winning his second consecutive Olympic gold medal. A year later, he led his country to gold in the World Championship in Prague, thus becoming a member of the Triple Gold Club and the only player in the club to have captained all three winning teams. He was a straight-A student and, according to the vice-principal, "an amazing role model, who was really kind to students in the learning centre and to special needs kids".
At age 15, Crosby transferred to Shattuck-Saint Mary's in Faribault, Minnesota, to play with the school's hockey program. Crosby went on to be selected first overall in the draft by the Pittsburgh Penguins on July 30, Due to the labour lockout that suspended the entire —05 NHL season, positioning for the draft was conducted via a weighted lottery based on each team's playoff appearances and draft lottery victories in the last four years. This lottery system led to the draft being popularly referred to as the "Sidney Crosby Lottery" or the "Sidney Crosby Sweepstakes".
Despite having registered two assists for a three-point night, the Penguins were defeated 7—6 in overtime. Crosby began his rookie season playing alongside Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux. The Penguins team replaced him with Jeff Carter to fulfill his role as a first-line center for the games. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Privacy Policy. Password recovery.
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