Sidney Crosby
Sidney Crosby
Sidney Patrick Crosby, ONSis a Canadian professional ice hockey player who serves as captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League. Crosby was drafted first overall by the Penguins out of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. During his two-year major junior career with the Rimouski Océanic, he earned back-to-back CHL Player of the Year awards and led his club to the 2005 Memorial Cup final. Nicknamed "The Next One", he was one of the most highly regarded...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth7 August 1987
CityCole Harbour, Canada
CountryCanada
I'm not really thinking about it right now, ... I want to come and play in the NHL next year. That's my goal, that's my focus right now. I'm going to put everything into that and try to move on from there.
I'm going to try to lead by example. I'm going to do my best for these guys.
I'm not going to play in a replacement league. With replacement players it's not the best league in the world - that's the league that I dream of playing in, the NHL - with real NHL players.
It's nice to finally get one. It's nice to be able to contribute.
It's nice but I would trade that for a lot more wins.
It's nice to have that out of the way. I am looking forward to getting on the ice every day.
It's nice to have that out of the way and (be able to) just focus on playing here,
It's something that's been talked about a lot, so it's nice to get it and nice to have the weight off the shoulders, too.
It's something you dream about, scoring in the NHL. There's a lot of emotion that comes out of that. But it would have been nice if we had finished it off.
It's so amazing, it's hard to believe, ... I was just fortunate to get that shot. I got lucky with that shot.
I was anxious to get started. There was so much anti-cipation. I wanted to get in the routine of playing games. It was just nice to be on a team, not competing against these guys in camp (but) trying to work together to win.
It goes by fast. When it's your first year, a lot of times it goes by slower just because everything's new. I can't imagine it going by any faster than it has this year. It's scary, but it's been fun and I want to finish as best as possible.
I was anxious to get started, ... There was so much anticipation. I wanted to get in the routine of playing games. It was just nice to be on a team, not competing against these guys in camp (but) trying to work together to win.
I think we made it easy for them to play against us. We can't play many more games like we did tonight or else it's going to make the next games tough.