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Legendary story of Crosby dryer has a little bit of a wrinkle
by Tony on 12/15/09 at 03:03 PM ET
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From USA Today’s Kevin Allen:
The irony of Sidney Crosby’s dented family dryer being in the Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame is that it is a symbol of his shooting failures, and not his successes, as a young hockey player.
The Pittsburgh Penguins star’s childhood basement was reproduced exactly in Pittsburgh for a Reebok commercial about Crosby shooting pucks into the dryer. However, Crosby, in good fun, conceded afterward that wasn’t exactly how the game was played when he was growing up in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia.
“The story is misunderstood,” he said, chuckling. “I wasn’t trying to shoot pucks in it. When I missed the net, I would hit the dryer on one side of the net. When I appeared on the Jay Leno show, he had me shoot at it, and everyone just assumed I shot pucks in it.”
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Do you think his Teddy Bear got dried in that thing?
Posted by Hippy Dave from Portland by way of Detroit on 12/16/09 at 03:11 AM ET