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Crosby’s absence: “It’s the Smart Move”
by Tony on 01/24/09 at 03:17 PM ET
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Remember in the first Godfather, after Vito croaks in the tomato garden, and they’re at the funeral ?? Tessio comes over to Michael and proposes a meeting (where of course he would have been assassinated). Tom Hagan leans over to Michael and says “I always thought it would be Clemenza, not Tessio”.
Michael replies, “it’s the smart move”. Tessio thinks the Corleone family will be weaker with Vito’s death, and decides to latch on with Barzini. Of course, Tessio would soon regret that decision, but I digress.
That leads us to modern day hockey, where Sidney Crosby had to make a controversial decision of his own recently, and I believe Michael would concur, he made the right decision, or rather, the smart move.
Crosby’s decision to skip the All-Star game has certainly caused, shall we say, discussion. Especially when you consider that Gary Bettman imposed one game suspensions on Pavel Datsyuk and Nik Lidstrom for missing the game, as well as not appearing in his 2nd straight All-Star Game, this time in Montreal, his boyhood team.
My response ?? Who gives a crap whether people are pissed off, his absence is best for the team.
The Penguins simply cannot afford to continue to watch Crosby languish with a bum knee for the foreseeable future. The Penguins will have to bust their collective butt-ocks’ just to make the playoffs. That task will be that much more difficult if Crosby, among the league scoring leaders, is not at or near 100% on the ice.
It doesn’t really matter in the long run, Crosby will be in a no-win situation by NHL fans (read: non-Penguins fans) no matter what he does. He gets criticized for everything he does on and off the ice, why should this be any different.
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