B/R Open Ice: Frank Seravalli on Sidney Crosby and all of the hypothesis about his future, the Pittsburgh Penguins, and Montreal Canadiens.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
“What’s going on with Sidney Crosby? Excellent segue into the Pittsburgh Penguins, and that’s, effectively, there have been these rumors which were floating on the market for months on finish.
Sidney Crosby needs to be a endlessly Penguin. Sidney Crosby has skilled a downturn for the Penguins, being out of rivalry considerably early. And he spoke to reporters on the NHL playoff participant media tour in Vegas, excuse me, and reiterated a few of slightly little bit of that frustration.
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And he mentioned, particularly, because it associated to the Montreal Canadiens, I get why it could come up and that form of factor. It doesn’t make it any simpler once you’re shedding to listen to these issues, however on the similar time, to know {that a} staff like that, which means Montreal needs you, it’s not the top of the world. It might be worse.
So, actually sort of attention-grabbing quote. That is the childhood favourite staff of Sidney Crosby. He reiterated in that dialog with reporters in Vegas, his love for the Montreal Canadiens, and I’d need to assume that being light by the Bell Heart crowd final yr at 4 Nations Faceoff, which simply being within the constructing makes the hair on the again of your neck get up, that needed to really feel good.
And there’s zero doubt. Additionally, like, let’s be completely clear that the Montreal Canadiens would do something to get their palms on Sidney Crosby, even at this age. With how productive and constant he’s been, plus the management caliber and high quality that he brings, they’d be all for it.
However I believe the Penguins are in a spot the place they’re not going to strategy their captain, who needs to be a endlessly Penguin. It’s going to be as much as Sidney Crosby to lift his hand and say, I’d like to maneuver on and simply listening to his feedback, and in addition listening to the feedback from his agent in CAA’s Pat Brisson. That doesn’t seem like occurring anytime quickly.
Nonetheless, nobody has actually formally closed the door on it and mentioned, Hey, that’s by no means going to occur. They simply mentioned, this can be a dialog that may proceed to evolve.
I additionally are likely to imagine that it’s not one that might occur mid-season, so I’m not anticipating one thing this yr, however who is aware of what one yr’s time will play out like? What subsequent summer season will play out like? As a result of that has actually been percolating underneath the floor.
And lots of people have mentioned, Oh, effectively, wouldn’t Sidney Crosby simply Crosby simply go to Denver to play with Nathan McKinnon in Colorado? I believe the Canadians, for lots of various causes, a staff on the rise, a staff that desperately needs him, a spot that he’s aware of, a spot that there’s some nostalgia for him rising up a Habs fan, and his dad being a Habs fan, that, that may examine a number of bins. Additionally taking part in in Canada to shut out his profession.
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However he’s by no means verbalized that publicly to anybody, and to be sincere, from everybody that I might speak to that’s in Sidney Crosby’s orbit, he’s by no means really actually verbalized that to anybody privately, both. This can be a man who’s so laser centered on attempting to make the Pittsburgh Penguins as greatest as attainable, and he has actually held up his finish of the cut price there.”
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