Sidney Crosby has to stay with the Pittsburgh Penguins, proper?
TSN: Frankie Corrado on TSN speaking about Sidney Crosby and if it’s higher for his legacy to stay a Pittsburgh Penguin or go chase one other Stanley Cup.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Host: “So (Leon) Draisaitl could find yourself as the best paid however the participant with the best profession earnings in NHL historical past in fact is Sidney Crosby. Now Frankie, I do know you’ll be able to’t image Sid in one other jersey, you’ve made that very clear. However when it comes to his legacy, what’s the higher transfer for Crosby being a Penguin for all times or making one other cup run with one other workforce?
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Corrado: “The higher legacy transfer for Sidney Crosby is to be a Penguin for all times and observe within the footsteps of his mentor Mario Lemieux. Take into consideration this, Stanley Cups have been one underneath Mario Lemiuex’s watch and in some unspecified time in the future, the torch needed to get handed on. The torch bought handed to Sidney Crosby.
Now Sidney Crosby has gained three Stanley Cups in Pittsburgh. Now that workforce is in a bit little bit of a center spot the place they’re not fairly ok to compete for a championship, however they’re not fairly dangerous sufficient to essentially backside out.
In some unspecified time in the future, if Sidney Crosby’s legacy goes from successful Stanley Cups in Pittsburgh to ultimately possibly passing the torch to the subsequent model of Mario and Sid, whoever which may be, we don’t know, that will likely be far more substantial for Sidney Crosby’s legacy than saying, ‘Hey, I’m outta right here. I get to go to Colorado or New York and I’m gonna go try to chase yet another Stanley Cup for my very own sake.
Sidney Crosby needs to be like Mario Lemieux. Needs to be like Nicholas Lidstrom and play his complete profession with the workforce that drafted him. The workforce he had a whole lot of success with and cross the torch when the time comes.
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Host: “Now, Crosby is the all-time chief in video games performed for Pittsburgh. He does ranked second amongst all Penguins in profession targets assists and factors solely behind Mario Lemieux.
