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Sidney Crosby fell hard into the boards a week after he was injured — and...
PITTSBURGH — After Sidney Crosby barreled into the boards near the end of the first period Monday, he lay face down on the ice for a few moments before pushing himself up. Crosby then paused on his...
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Sidney Crosby incident just the latest sign the NHL’s concussion protocols...
Storylines abound for the third round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Can the Penguins repeat? Is Erik Karlsson, in fact, a robot? Will P.K. Subban continue to rub Marc Bergevin’s face in it? And also...
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OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators were fit to be tied. The Eastern Conference final is down to a best-of-three after the Senators suffered a disappointing 3-2 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 4 of...
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Plenty riding on Game 7 for Sidney Crosby: Chance to lead Pittsburgh Penguins...
PITTSBURGH — Sidney Crosby was his usual cool self as he prepared for another monumental game in his already storied career. “You’ve got to refocus,” said the 29-year-old moments after a close Game 6...
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‘Sid scores, I want to score two’: Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby, Evgeni...
PITTSBURGH — This is how it works with Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. “It’s a good competition between me and Sid,” the usually quiet Malkin said. “It’s like, Sid scores, I want to score two. “Sid...
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Sidney Crosby needs his Pittsburgh Penguins teammates to step up to defeat...
NASHVILLE — We have finally found a flaw in Sidney Crosby: He can’t play defence for the Pittsburgh Penguins. And he can’t play the wing or in goal and in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup final, the Penguins...
View ArticlePittsburgh Penguins take cue from Sidney Crosby in Game 5 rout of Nashville...
PITTSBURGH — The problem was never Sidney Crosby. It never is. No, the reason why the Pittsburgh Penguins headed into Game 5 of the Stanley Cup final having blown a 2-0 series lead to the Nashville...
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Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby proving — again — he is truly something...
PITTSBURGH — There is a framed newspaper page on the wall of the press box at PPG Paints Arena with the championship headline: “It’s Mario’s Team.” It will soon be time for another page, another frame,...
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Sidney Crosby laying waste to the myth that he can’t adapt to whoever lines...
NASHVILLE — Like all myths, it’s difficult to know where this one started. Maybe it was because he tried and failed with Bill Guerin, Marian Hossa and James Neal. Maybe it was because Chris Kunitz had...
View ArticleBarry Trotz can’t help but feel his Nashville history
NASHVILLE — The one that got away. That comes to mind when talking to Barry Trotz, the Washington Capitals head coach who prior to his current gig had spent 15 long years coaching the Nashville...
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‘He’s done it all’: Connor McDavid won MVP at age 20, but he’s still chasing...
By Tal Pinchevsky LAS VEGAS — The image marks a single moment in hockey’s long history. A smiling and shaggy-haired Connor McDavid, six weeks removed from his 16th birthday, posing for a photo while...
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You know you’re Canadian when: Steve Simmons’ memories of national sporting...
By Steve Simmons You know you’re Canadian when … You know exactly where you were and how you celebrated when Paul Henderson scored for Canada or, depending on your age, when Sidney Crosby scored the...
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Sidney Crosby at 30: The can’t miss ‘kid’ who didn’t
HALIFAX — As he turns 30 on Monday, Sidney Crosby will celebrate his third Stanley Cup win parading the cherished mug through the streets of the city where he’s been a star since he was five years old....
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The language of hockey in Quebec: Why it’s actually not French
About 15 years ago, Gilles Courteau, the commissioner of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, began hearing whispers from NHL scouts about Francophone players that were graduating from the Quebec...
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Can anyone stop the Pittsburgh Penguins? Rest of NHL hopes to derail march to...
Each time Seth Jones felt like the Columbus Blue Jackets were dominating, the Pittsburgh Penguins went down the ice and scored. The series was over fast. T.J. Oshie knows the feeling, because the...
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How did the NHL’s top players cast their pre-season predictions for Stanley...
Connor McDavid and Sidney Crosby may be the acknowledged faces of the NHL, but which smiling faces will be sipping from the Stanley Cup in 2018? Even some of the top names in the sport aren’t sure of...
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Pittsburgh Penguins stride apolitically into political firestorm — and side...
During last year’s NBA playoffs, after a game in Cleveland in which he had swatted the Toronto Raptors away like a gnat, LeBron James was asked about an incident in Boston in which Baltimore Orioles...
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Can the Pittsburgh Penguins three-peat? Is it the Tampa Bay Lightning’s year?...
Wayne Gretzky’s Edmonton Oilers couldn’t do it. Nor could Nicklas Lidstrom’s Detroit Red Wings. Even the Pittsburgh Penguins’ dynamic duo of Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr could not pull off the feat....
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It’s not Connor McDavid’s time yet: Postmedia ranks the top 50 players in the...
For the first time in many years, there’s actually a debate over which player is No. 1 in the NHL. Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins has been the undisputed top player for a long time, but...
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Fighting in the NHL is making a late-round comeback — because today’s...
When the Pittsburgh Penguins won their second championship in as many years in June, the first person Sidney Crosby passed the Stanley Cup to was stay-at-home defenceman Ron Hainsey, who handed it off...
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