Sidney Crosby

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INTRODUCTION In the world of hockey Sidney Crosby ranks as one of the best players He is one of the most award winning of all time Even from the time he was a toddler Sid the Kid was a prodigy on ice At age thirty after having won the Stanley Cup three times his star is still shining bright Speed skill smarts strength Crosby has it all He was born with a natural ability to skate handle a stick and fire a puck into a net Crosby became the youngest National Hockey League NHL captain at that time at age nineteen and the youngest youngest to lead his team to a Stanley Cup title Crosby holds the record as the youngest player to reach two hundred career points and one hundred points in a single season The superstar joined the exclusive Triple Gold Club when he captured an Olympic gold medal and won gold in the International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship IIHF He’s now in that group of top three four all-time greats Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford said in an interview on NHL com In 2010 the twenty-three-year-old Crosby was burning up the ice in a twenty-five-game point streak He tallied an incredible fifty-point run In his rookie season playing against the Phoenix Coyotes Crosby fell and still scored One of his most incredible goals came in 2017 with a one-handed backhanded backhanded score against the Buffalo Sabres Although his job is to play center and score goals Crosby does whatever it takes to win In the 2010 playoffs against the Ottawa Senators Crosby dove to block a puck making a critical save his team would go on to victory in the six-game series Like any athlete Crosby has had to battle through discouraging discouraging slumps as well For several years before 2016 4