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History Will Be Made Commercial with Sidney Crosby

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:57:25 +0000

It says History Will Be Made, but by the looks of the video we all know that History was made by Crosby with that goal!

Vancouver 2010 Olympic Gold Medal game Video

Crosby’s OT goal brings home the Gold

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:11:07 +0000

Team Canada beat the Americans yesterday to in overtime to win the 2010 Gold Medal for Mens Hockey. And probably even more ironic is the fact that Sid the Kid was there to seal to deal. And there is no doubt that this goal (although nothing too fancy about it) will be remembered to many Canadians as time goes on, much like the famous goal that Paul Henderson scored during the 72 Summit series.

The teams were so close that Team USA was able to tie the game with only 24 seconds remaining to force the gold medal game to go into the extra period. In fact this game was the only game that Team USA had lost in the tournament (they beat Team Canada during round robin play) thanks to key players like Ryan Miller, Zach Parise and Patrick Kane.

Canada’s gold medal win was not really thanks to Crosby alone, the team played solid together as a team with many players chipping in and no real MVP player that stands out among the rest. Crosby did score the OT winning goal but he certainly wasn’t the best player on the team. Several players such as Rick Nash, Jonathan Toews, Jerome Iginla, Scott Niedermayer, and Roberto Luongo played just as amazing hockey as Crosby did. Yet Crosby managed to shine through when needed much like he always seems to be able to do.

Regardless of what some critics might say about Crosby’s opympic play adding an Olympic Gold Medal to an already impressive Hockey resume only makes it that much sweeter for the young super star of Nova Scotia in the minds of Canadian hockey fans everywhere.

[photo source: Toronto Star - thestar.com]

Sidney Crosby runs with Olympic flame

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:12:09 +0000

Sidney Crosby added another iconic piece of hardware to his stellar collection, except this time it wasn’t a trophy but a 2010 Winter Olympic torch.

Thousands of Maritimes lined up both sides of downtown Halifax streets to watch the Penguins captain carry the torch in a mitten-covered hand for about 300 meters. Dressed with the official torchbearer uniform, Crosby grinned and jogged below historic Citadel Hill as the bright, orange flame burned above his head.

Crosby’s hometown of Cole Harbour is located across the harbour from Halifax.

The winter games are scheduled to be held in Vancouver British Columbia in February 2010. Crosby is expected to play on the top line this time; Sidney was snubbed by Team Canada at the last winter Olympics in 2006.

Perhaps the Olympic torch run for Crosby will bring him some good luck for his play at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.

[photo source: Flikr.com - Matturalistic]

Four day Team Canada Olympic camp concludes

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:05:09 +0000

As the four day Team Canada Olympic camp came to a close it was reasonable to assume that a number of things will need to happen during the early stages of the hockey season to help complete Steve Yzerman’s vision for Team Canada before he goes ahead and makes the final selections for the Olympic Team in December. There is a lot of pressure for Team Canada this year, performing on home ice and especially after coming home without medals at the last Olympic tournament. The camp in Calgary did offer a few hints or possibilities of how some players currently stand on the Olympic Team. As camp was wrapping up, Yzerman did acknowledge that there was a logic to the line pairings that they tested.

I think its safe to say that Crosby will not be snubbed this year and we will look forward to seeing him lead the team to Gold just like he led the Penguins to the Stanley Cup last year.

To read more about the Team Canada camp click here.

[photo source: The Canadian Press]