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Crosby Close
by Paul on 11/02/11 at 09:23 AM ET
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from Dejan Kovacevic of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,
He still isn’t committing to a firm date. He’ll accompany the Penguins today on their two-game West Coast swing, and there are five blank spots on the calendar before the Nov. 11 home game against Dallas.
Could that be the one?
The 11-11-11 date might hit a little close to home for the superstitious Crosby, whose first head shot came 1-1-11. So maybe Nov. 15 against Colorado is a better guess.
I asked Crosby what, beyond that pregame locker room scene, he has visualized for his return game.
“Just about everything,” he said, smiling again. “Going to the bench with the guys. Hearing all the chatter. Having your hometown crowd behind you. Maybe, if it’s a close game, feeling that intensity again. All of that. Every bit of it. It’s going to be a lot of fun.”
Soon.
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Evilpens, your comments are despicable. Suggesting someone to overdose on anything is utterly inappropriate. You are wholly in the wrong here.
Posted by GregAnnapolis on 11/02/11 at 11:19 AM ET
STFU ! OK Primis ? Good Lord go OD on Midol !
Posted by Evilpens on 11/02/11 at 11:10 AM ET
That you as an alleged Pens fan are ok just going along with this constant teasing flabbergasts me. Just open wide and eat some more of the steaming pile they’ll feed you. I can’t imagine all Pens fans are so gullible…
Until you actually see Crosby out skating on the ice taking an opening faceoff… he is *not* playing.
Posted by Primis on 11/02/11 at 11:20 AM ET
I didn’t want to see him play the TB game after the Winter Classic run in with Steckel & while a lot of Band wagon Pens fans thought Steckel tried to hit hit Sid I as a Hockey fan of 35 plus years know that that was incidental contact, But should Have Never been playing the next Game & sure as hell shouldn’t have been playing up 7-0 on TB
The Pens organIzation has to stop Kissing Sid’s ASS but that won’t happen because Mario & Jagr got the same treatment
Posted by Evilpens on 11/02/11 at 11:45 AM ET
So as you see Primis, Evilpens is not a gullible Penguins fan whatsoever.
Posted by NathanBC on 11/02/11 at 11:52 AM ET
I as a Hockey fan of 35 plus
Wow, that’s about 22+ years longer than I assumed you have been on this earth.
Posted by Garth on 11/02/11 at 12:10 PM ET
I found this piece of the article most interesting…
Which is to say, Crosby isn’t about to reinvent himself to adjust for injury or illness, as Lemieux did with his many comebacks. When Lemieux would return, particularly from back trouble, he generally would stay on the perimeter, avoid traffic, slow things down.
Crosby’s genes comes with one gear.
“Personally, I don’t like to slow things down,” he said. “There are a few guys who can do that. A guy like Pavel Datsyuk, he seems to have that knack.”
Datsyuk, Detroit’s brilliant forward, can go zero to 60 to zero on the same shift.
“I think I can do that in spurts. There are games where I feel the need to do that,” Crosby continued. “But to say that I want to mold my game that way or to change it, no, that’s not it. Over a 60-minute game, I’m not going to have as much success if I’m not attacking, being aggressive, creating turnovers and going after loose pucks.”
Posted by Russian Rocket on 11/02/11 at 12:25 PM ET
@ Garth & that is why people like you should Never ever assume Because well I am sure someone has told you the line !
Posted by Evilpens on 11/02/11 at 01:36 PM ET
Posted by Evilpens on 11/02/11 at 01:36 PM ET
Right. Way to understand that I was making a point about your intellectual maturity.
Posted by Russian Rocket on 11/02/11 at 12:25 PM ET
It would be a shame if Crosby had to change the way that he plays because of this. He and Datsyuk are very different players and what works for Datsyuk wouldn’t necessarily work for Crosby and vice versa, so hopefully the game is changing a bit (in terms of head shots and concussions and whatnot) so that he doesn’t have to alter his game to a possibly less effective way of playing.
Posted by Garth on 11/02/11 at 02:08 PM ET
Evil, you got give all these Amway fans a break, they’re still mad because Kronwall got Forsberged last night and cost his team the game.
Posted by Lindas1st from New England on 11/02/11 at 07:31 PM ET
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We’ve heard this all before. He was “close” opening night. He was “close” a week or so after that. He was “close” in the playoffs last year.
Whatever.
Posted by Primis on 11/02/11 at 11:07 AM ET