Sidney Crosby

2022 - 5 - 3

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Sidney Crosby, 17 Seasons On, Is Ready to Wreck the N.H.L. Playoffs (The New York Times)

One of the league's longest active players, Crosby quietly had an exceptional season. His Pittsburgh Penguins are in the playoffs for the 16th consecutive ...

“I just try to look at it one year at a time,” he said. “He has the best of both worlds.” “He’s very good at rest, so when he’s not training, his nervous system is in a really calm state.” For the sake of superstition, it has always made for a salary cap hit of $8.7 million per season. “And then feel ready to go the next day. Crosby still barges into the corners, battles alongside the boards and scores nifty goals — on breakaways and tic-tac-toes, from the back door and behind the net, on one knee and on his behind and off a goalie’s head. Crosby, chosen by the Penguins first overall in 2005 and heaped with expectations to lead the N.H.L. out of its lockout season, played his 1,000th career game in February 2021 and scored his 500th goal one year later. “It’s more years of wear and tear, and on top of that, you’ve got to find ways to adjust your game. Crosby, who has won three Stanley Cups and a boatload of individual awards in a physically brutal game that becomes faster and younger by the year, has been paying attention. His 84 points tied him for the team lead with left wing Jake Guentzel, who is seven years younger than Crosby and played seven more games. “I don’t look at it as he’s peaked and now we’re just trying to slow down that decline,” O’Brien said. Only seven current N.H.L. players have been at it longer than Crosby, and six others came into the league with him in 2005.

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Penguins' Jeff Carter earns respect of teammates, enjoying ... (TribLIVE)

Jeff Carter's career resume is sterling enough that he might be the face of some playoff franchises: 17 seasons, 1100-plus games, 800-plus points and two ...

“I just think he’s another voice of leadership in our dressing room that can offer a certain perspective because of his accomplishments and the successes that he’s had over the course of his career. “He, without a doubt, has the respect of all of the players in our room,” Sullivan said. “He’s been amazing,” winger Jake Guentzel said of Carter’s 13-month tenure with the Penguins. “He’s been through a lot. “This is their team,” Carter said, referring to the Penguins triumvirate of Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang. “They have been around for a long time and had a lot of success here, and I try to help out where I can. He always has a couple of wise words in between periods. But that doesn’t mean his stature as a possible future Hall of Famer doesn’t carry weight in the Penguins dressing room.

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Rangers need to do more to contain Sidney Crosby (New York Post)

Gerard Gallant said he didn't want the Rangers to focus on Sidney Crosby, and by golly, his team followed the head coach's instructions to a tee.

It was not from a lack of effort, that’s for sure, but it proved a tough go, with the Rangers forced to play in their own end way too much of the time. So does Crosby. The Rangers might want to focus a bit more closely on No. 87 the next time. Artemi Panarin had a tough night, bottled up much of the time, often trying to force the issue. Rust later scored a PPG to tie the score at 3 late in the period. Guentzel scored twice 7:15 apart in the second period to tie the game, assisted by Crosby and Rust on each. There was much good in this one, even though the club could neither maintain its game or leads of 2-0 and 3-2. Shots from the middle of the ice were passed up in favor of passes to more acute angles. The Blueshirts fell back into their habit of looking for the perfect play instead of getting the puck in deep or to the net. That belonged to Evgeni Malkin, who scored on a deflection that counted as the 83rd shot against a gallant Igor Shesterkin after 105:58 of pulsating hockey. The fact though is that DeSmith and Domingue canceled the Blueshirts’ perceived edge in nets right off the bat. So though Shesterkin was superlative in this one, the Penguins found that he was not impregnable. Relief netminder Louis Domingue pitched shutout ball the rest of the way while facing 16 shots.

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