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Crosby Out Of ASG
by Paul on 01/22/09 at 04:28 PM ET
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from TSN,
For the second straight year the NHL All-Star game will be without one of the game’s biggest stars as Sidney Crosby has pulled out of this weekend’s mid-winter classic in Montreal.
added 4:37pm,
MONTREAL (Jan. 22, 2009)—Martin St. Louis takes the place of Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby, who received a record number of votes in All-Star fan balloting but will not participate due to injury.
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I can hardly wait to hear the outrage from THN and other MSM pundits.
(waiting)
(waiting)
(crickets)
Posted by YzermanZetterberg on 01/22/09 at 06:02 PM ET
So I assume the weekend is cancelled?
Also, let’s stop saying “due to injury” and start saying “due to the event’s triviality”. There’s no need to keep the lies alive, I think.
Posted by Earl Sleek from Anaheim, CA on 01/22/09 at 06:02 PM ET
You said it Earl. At least they have two years to figure out what to do with the next ASG or whatever you want to call it.
Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 01/22/09 at 06:05 PM ET
So Bettman’s Baby Boy can’t make it to the game again? Tough break. Poor Gary! :(
Posted by Alan from Atlanta on 01/22/09 at 06:10 PM ET
I should have gone in Crosby’s place
Posted by Boris Valabik from a groin that's still tender on 01/22/09 at 06:22 PM ET
I should have gone in Crosby’s place
Posted by Boris Valabik from a groin that’s still tender on 01/22/09 at 05:22 PM ET
Stop complaining, Boris. You said yourself that he was punching you so hard that you didn’t even notice until you saw video after the fact. 
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 01/22/09 at 06:36 PM ET
In a discussion panel with Darren Pang and John Tortorella, Bob MacKenzie of TSN.ca said something that caught my attention when the announcement was made that Crosby was not going. Near the end of the video, he says, “How ‘bout this: if you’re the Stanley Cup Champion, you do not have to go [to the ASG].” Darren Pang loved the idea.
Posted by SYF from Las Vegas, NV on 01/22/09 at 06:56 PM ET
he is still going to attend though...so unlike the other guys, he wants to be there..but wouldnt play against dr’s and team’s orders.
Posted by greg on 01/22/09 at 11:03 PM ET
he wants to be there..but wouldnt play against dr’s and team’s orders
Probably more like Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman when Louis Gossett Jr. breaks him…
“I got nowhere else to go!”
Posted by YzermanZetterberg on 01/22/09 at 11:45 PM ET
Probably more like Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman when Louis Gossett Jr. breaks him…
“I got nowhere else to go!”
You win.
Posted by Nathan from Jonny Ericsson's ice cream truck on 01/23/09 at 09:59 AM ET
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Posted by SYF from Las Vegas, NV on 01/22/09 at 05:33 PM ET