Crosby, Sidney

Crosby, Sidney

▪ Canadian ice hockey player
born Aug. 7, 1987, Cole Harbour, N.S., Can.

      Canadian ice hockey player who became the youngest captain of a National Hockey League (NHL) team.

      Crosby, the son of a goaltender drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, was able to skate by age three. In his sophomore year of high school in Faribault, Minn., he scored 72 goals and had 90 assists in 57 games. This feat gained the attention of ice hockey legend Wayne Gretzky (Gretzky, Wayne), who speculated that his own records would one day be surpassed by Crosby. In 2003 Rimouski Océanic, a Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team, drafted Crosby, who went on to score 120 goals and tally 183 assists in 121 regular-season games over two years. Each year he was named Canada's top junior player. He also joined the Canadian National Junior Hockey team and became the youngest player to score a goal for the national team.

      In 2005 the Pittsburgh Penguins selected the 18-year-old Crosby as the top pick in that year's NHL draft. Expectations were high for the young player, who drew numerous comparisons to Gretzky (Crosby was dubbed “The Next One,” a variation on Gretzky's nickname “The Great One”). By the end of his first season (2005–06), Crosby had become the youngest NHL player to score at least 100 points in a single season.

      Crosby's second season saw him break more records. For scoring 120 points in 79 games, he won the Art Ross Trophy, becoming its youngest recipient. He was the youngest player since Gretzky (in 1980) to register a six-point game, and he became the second-youngest player ever (again behind Gretzky) to receive the Hart Trophy, as the NHL's most valuable player. Crosby was named captain of the Penguins in 2007, making him the youngest captain in NHL history. He achieved his greatest team success to date during the 2007–08 season, when the Penguins advanced to the Stanley Cup finals; they lost to the Detroit Red Wings in six games.

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