Wayne Gretzky's Ghost (2011)
“(The Globe and Mail, June 13, 2009) DETROIT, MICHIGAN He finished hurt, but he finished what he set out to do. What some would even say he had to do. This morning, the scraggly playoff beard will mercifully go. It’s time to show equal mercy to the nickname. “Sid the Kid” no longer makes much sense.
He is only twenty-one, but Sidney Crosby, as of the lifting of the 2009 Stanley Cup following his Pittsburgh Penguins’ 2–1 victory over the defending champion Detroit Red Wings, is no longer much of ...a “kid.” He stands, instead, as the best North American, by far, in the National Hockey League and Canada’s only sensible choice to lead the country back to the gold medal as captain of the Olympic team.
He is not only a player of enormous top-speed skill but one of those rare players who has no need of that number, 87, to be recognized on the ice. When not forced to conceal an injury—he was hurt last night by a second-period check from Detroit’s Johan Franzen—he moves about the rink, as nearby Windsor poet Marty Gervais once wrote, as swiftand keen and gracefulas a hawk abovea morning meadow.MoreLess
He is only twenty-one, but Sidney Crosby, as of the lifting of the 2009 Stanley Cup following his Pittsburgh Penguins’ 2–1 victory over the defending champion Detroit Red Wings, is no longer much of ...a “kid.” He stands, instead, as the best North American, by far, in the National Hockey League and Canada’s only sensible choice to lead the country back to the gold medal as captain of the Olympic team.
He is not only a player of enormous top-speed skill but one of those rare players who has no need of that number, 87, to be recognized on the ice. When not forced to conceal an injury—he was hurt last night by a second-period check from Detroit’s Johan Franzen—he moves about the rink, as nearby Windsor poet Marty Gervais once wrote, as swiftand keen and gracefulas a hawk abovea morning meadow.MoreLess
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