Making progress, Sidney Crosby style
By now you might be familiar with Sidney Crosby’s now- infamous attack on Boris Valabik of the Atlanta Thrashers. For those who aren’t, Crosby attacked Valabik from behind while Valabik was engaged with another Penguins player and punched Valabik several times in the groin:
During this afternoon’s 6-1 Penguins loss to the Florida Panthers Crosby showed marked improvement in the fighting department:
Hey, jumping a guy who’s looking at the ice right off the faceoff isn’t quite as bad as attacking another man’s testicles from behind, right? (am I really writing this?) Maybe Crosby will even face his next victim opponent and let him know he’s about to be attacked, provided that’s not too much to ask.
If you watched the second clip with the sound on, you probably heard how ecstatic the Penguins announcers were that Crosby had dropped the gloves to try and encourage the crowd and rile up his team. Call me crazy, but if I were the Penguins I’d want my team’s second leading scorer on the ice, rather than in the box for nineteen minutes for instigating a fight.
How can so many people be blind to what a t^^@t Crosby is?
Nice post. After I saw this earlier, I had to include a link in the post it helped inspire me to write. Thanks DMG.
Thanks, Dan.
As for how people can love Crosby so much, my guess is that most are either die hard Pens fans or casual fans who don’t know much other than that they’ve been hearing his name for years.