That's all it took for Sidney Crosby to remind the hockey world he's the ruler of their kingdom. 2 goals, 2 assists, just north of 15 minutes of ice time and 21 shifts. By next week he should have more points than Alex Ovechkin. And Ovi has 20 games on Sid.
He beat a rookie goalie, Anders Nilsson, who is now the trivia answer to whose life Crosby ruined his first NHL start. The Islanders make some truly baffling decisions since glass jaw DiPietro was "healthy" and on the bench for the show. Meanwhile Marc-Andre Fleury put on a goal tending clinic, stopping everything that came near him for his second shutout of the season.
If you need an article to read about the joyous occasion, just google Crosby. You'll find plenty. Avoid the Ottawa Citizen like the plague though. In an effort to cut costs, they hired a 12 year old to write their articles and fired the copy editor.
And because everything the Penguins do has to have some sort of symmetry to it, last night was no exception. Game tickets were printed in August and guess whose face was on it? Mario Lemieux made his debut post retirement against goalie Garth Snow (who happens to be the GM of the Islanders these days) and collected a goal and 2 assists (Sid managed to one up him with a second goal). Mario also asked that they make signs that say "Sid" for the fans to hold up as they did when he returned to the ice. And his dad Troy decided during the fathers trip to Florida last week (before Sid even saw the doctor) that he would hang around for the Islanders game before heading back to Canada.
I'm beginning to wonder if this was all a dream, like we were a human experiment of Inception and Sid was controlling us all, because it looked like he had never missed a shift, let alone a game.
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