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John Buccigross Gets It Right About Sidney Crosby E-mail
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Written by tecmo   
Friday, 05 March 2010 11:19

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Sidney Crosby is a diver, a whiner, and an all-around baby. CROS-BY SUCKS, is what I hear from fellow hockey fans. And since those are the prevailing notions, then I guess we gotta blindly accept them as fact. Hell, those fans do.

So it's nice to see a guy like ESPN's John Buccigross put those fans in their place. In his latest mailbag, the Pittsburgh-born Bucci takes aim at the horribly-misinformed Crosby-bashers:

"I watch parts of just about every NHL game. I don't watch "Lost" or "Dancing with the Stars" or "Idol." I watch NHL hockey every night I'm home. These are my observations:

1. Crosby rarely whines. In fact, he is one of the more subdued players in the NHL. That is a fact. If you believe otherwise, you haven't seen a large sample of his games this season.

2. To call him overrated is as implausibly mind-boggling as calling Lady Gaga underrated. He wins faceoffs, he scores goals, he is the best passer in the NHL, he backchecks, he's completely committed to his craft, he carries his franchise's media load and has since he was 18. No one has had more asked of him over the past five years than Crosby.

3. Crosby has a scoring title, an MVP award, a Stanley Cup and an overtime gold medal-winning goal. He's 22. He's good. Try to enjoy him like the NBA fans who aren't Cavaliers fans enjoy LeBron James and baseball fans who aren't Cardinals fans enjoy Albert Pujols.

I have a difficult time detesting anything in life except Michael Bolton covering Otis Redding songs. That's it."

THIS! THISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHIS!

The one thing I didn't understand was the Lady Gaga reference. The only thing I really know about her is one of my coworkers blasts one of her songs at work almost every day to the point where I can hear it at my desk through his earbuds. I have no idea if we should call her overrated or underrated, so I'll just glaze over that part and praise Bucci for putting in to words exactly how Crosby should be summed up.

Major love to Bucci for this. Perhaps it'll level out some of the Sid haters out there. Wait...do I really believe that?

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written by venjaminjenkman, March 07, 2010
Crosby was a complainer when he first came into the league. Here's a players poll where he was far and away voted 'biggest complainer' (http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/...ayersurvey). He's gotten better on that front, but reputations have a tendency to stick in a sport as tribal as hockey.

I actually do love watching him play, but making everything hockey about Crosby's flawlessness is what makes me resist him. An ESPN writer defending the merits of one of the only two marketed players in the game is hardly a profile in courage.
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written by Angelo, March 10, 2010
Being long time Penguins season ticket holder, I am able to watch Crosby during every home game and I can say for certain that everything Bucci stated is the truth.

Nobody on that roster hustles as much on a game-by-game basis as Sidney Crosby. He plays both ends, his passing is spectacular, his shooting has improved immensely, he's a faceoff winning machine and he's clutch. His determination and will to win is beyond explanation.

When it comes to people calling him a whiner and a baby. When Sid opens his mouth over the course of a game, people call him a whiner. When players like Ovechkin or Richards do it, it's passed off as those players simply expressing their emotion. It's funny how that works huh?

Eitherway, the disdain and blind hatred that many have for Crosby is something that I pass off as pure jealousy and idiocy. At the end of the day, they would absolutely love having this guy lead their team to the SC finals for two years straight.

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