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Why does /sp/ hate Sidney Crosby?

I think he has a great shot, handles the puck well, and can make good plays.

Does /sp/ pick on Crosby just to make him some kind of forced meme? I mean, what the hell, I don't see anyone making fun of Joe Thornton or anyone like that...so why Crosby?

I demand an explanation...Go Pens!
>> HKK !Li1UpTuBEs
Because Crosby and Danica Patrick are the same person.

Both of them are vastly overrated by their moronic bandwagon fans, both of them are seen as the only members of their sport by the media, both of them constantly bitch to officals about not getting calls and most of all, both of them have a vagina.
>> Anonymous
>>117592

stale pasta is stale
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
0/10
>> HKK !Li1UpTuBEs
>>117593

Wrote it myself less than ten minutes ago and it's the truth.
>> Anonymous
>>117591

Where's Crosby's fag visor? You know, so he doesn't get semen all over his pretty face...
>> Bruinsfag
Crosby is more or less the figure that defines what Bettman wants hockey to become. He's one of the most notorious divers in the league, he is wrongfully considered the next Gretzky and he's spawned hundreds of fairweather fans.

I have nothing against him personally, but the media needs to take his dick out of their collective ass.
>> Anonymous
>>117604

Diving belongs in basketball, not hockey.

If you get hit, take your hit and get back up and chase the puck, simple as that.
>> Anonymous
He’s not the only player in the league who complains. The problem is there are more cameras on him than anyone else.
>> Anonymous
>I think he has a great shot
It's the NHL. The vast majority of forwards (and especially one-way forwards) have "great" shots.

>handles the puck well
Until he flops to the ice because a defenseman breathed on him.

>can make good plays
Again, he's being paid to play a game. He better damn well be good at it.
>> Anonymous
>>117608
This. I'm a Flyersfag, so by nature I hate the kid. However, he's a very, very good player. He's talked about for a reason, but yet they go too far in promoting him. He bitches and moans a lot, which is kind of lame, but whatever. He's a soft player, there are lots of those. The problem is that the entire league sucks his cock at every possible occassion, going so far to pretend that Jesus [without facial hair] just laced up the skates and took to the ice. When he dives, it's because he's "BATTLING SO HARD, MMPH...HE'S SUCH A...OH MY...SUCH A GOOD PLAYER, SUCH A...A STRONG LOWER BODY! OH YES!". When he cries to the referees, it's "OH, SID IS SUCH A GOOD LE...LEADER! MMM, HE'S SO YOUNG, TOO! THE FACE OF THE NEW...THE NEW NH-OH GOD, I'M GONNA BLOW!"

The constant praise and over-exposure is enough to make anyone sick of him. There are a TON of highly skilled players in the NHL, and yet a single player receives more attention than all of them put together. The reason you never see anyone make fun of Joe Thornton is because nobody in the league ever talks about Joe Thornton. They're busy telling you for the five-hundreth time why Sidney Crosby is the next great one. Do I mind when people talk about him? No. Do I mind when he is the only thing talked about? Even when his team was getting their asses handed to them by the Red Wings, the announcers were still fellating the guy. I can think of a dozen players in the Eastern conference alone who could represent the game just as well as "Sid the Kid", but they barely even get a mention inbetween all the worshiping of this whiner. He's one of the top 5 players in the league...But that also means there's four other players you could talk about just as easily.
>> Anonymous
Cindy's a whining little homo
>> Anonymous
>>117608
Exactly.
>> Anonymous
Ruutu > Crosby
>> Anonymous of Philadelphia(Has Told People to Kill Themselves 105+ Times) !!CF3BKIiUIDY
I probably wouldn't mind Crosby nearly as much if Bettman didn't keep a life-size doll of him in his room, in a manner of speaking.

Just blaring his name out over and over. And when you say "he's the next Gretzky" you're just asking for hate. Don't compare next-generation players to classic awesome.
>> Anonymous
It's cause all the other fagit ass teams that got raped by the pens are jealous so they hate.
>> Anonymous
>>117680

^This

He's not "The Next One", there will NEVER be another Gretzky, I don't think any of his records are going to be broken.
>> Anonymous of Philadelphia(Has Told People to Kill Themselves 107+ Times) !!CF3BKIiUIDY
>>117691
Even if his records get "broken" there won't be a player like Gretzky.

It's like when people are like "GRAND THEFT AUTO IV IS EQUAL TO OCARINA OF TIME" and you want to kill them. Ocarina of Time is a landmark achievement in adventure gaming, it's not "comparable" to next-gen gaming.
>> Anonymous
Saying he's the next Gretzky is irrelavant because Orr > Gretzky anyway.
>> Anonymous
as stated before, it's all HES THE NEXT GRETZSKY, BLAH BLAH BLAH. plus, for all the people who go ehh, i think ovechkins better, the nhl doesnt even give a shit about that.

i know people say they cant be rival players until they meet up in the playoffs, but if the nhl built up ovechkin like they do crosby, people will be drawn to wanting that possible matchup.
>> Anonymous
ya gritsguy wanst taht gud NEway lol

crosbys tha next crosby, not gritsguy xD
>> Anonymous of Philadelphia(Has Told People to Kill Themselves 109+ Times) !!CF3BKIiUIDY
>>117705
Trolling like this got old in 1999. Improve.
>> Anonymous
He's really overrated. Period.

He's not the best player in hockey. He's not even the best player on his team.

He also dives, or worse, he has a serious lack of balance. The best player in NHL history never made a play when he was flat on his face, and Crosby is simply off his skates way more than most players.

So there.
>> Anonymous
Overrated? No. He's been well within the reach of being the top scorer each of the 3 seasons he's played. He probably would have been right behind Ovechkin had he not been injured this season either.

Are there better players right now? Sure. It's debatable though. If someone asked me to name the top players in the league Crosby would be in that list.

He dives, but face it, so did Gretzky. Infact, I'd be willing to say Crosby dives LESS than Gretzky ever did. And the whining? I don't get what counts as whining. Arguing with the ref because that's your job as captain?
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>>117719

Kill yourself
>> Anonymous
>>117763

Everytime he gets checked, he always looks to the ref to see if a penalty was called. Hell, it got INJURED because he was trying to draw a penalty, and instead of bracing himself, he was looking toward the ref wondering where the call was.
>> Anonymous
>>117763
Real men play hurt. This is hockey not baseball. And learn how to reply newfag.
>> Anonymous
>>117752

ITT: Find the butthurt Flyersfag who thinks being "overrated" is determined by the ONE TIME he EVER took a dive.

---------------> Africa is that way, nigger.
>> Anonymous
>>117784

How do you know he's a Flyers fan? Because only Flyers fans hate Crosby right? lol.

Try, every other fan of the leauge, except penguins fans.
>> Anonymous
>>117775

To make it short, no, even hockey players don't play injured unless it's the post season. Even then it depends on the level of injury. Crosby was better off recouping for the post season than struggling along.
>> Anonymous
>>117793
Maybe your pussy ass team doesn't play injured but mine does.
>> Anonymous
>>117771

To be honest I rarely ever see it. The pens aren't the team I cheer for, but I watched a good chunk of their games this season via Center Ice and I still didn't see a lot of this so called "whining."

I didn't watch many in his first two seasons so maybe he toned it down in his third season.
>> Anonymous
>>117788

ITT: Find the butthurt NHL fan, because his league sucks
>> Anonymous
>>117798

Only a moron plays through a foot injury. Yeah, let's risk a player being out even longer. Hurr.

Hand injuries? Sure. Tape that shit up and get out there. Those are easy to play through and I've played through them in my mens league.

But who am I kidding, you're probably trollan'
>> CapitalistBastard !!f/pELCnjRD0
>>117803

You have to understand, this faggot has never laced up to play the sport.

Those of us who have been out on the ice have a little different perspective.
>> Anonymous
>>117807

The way CB plays hockey, is when you get a little love tap from the defense, you dive and pretend you're hurt. Then you go skate to the ref and yell at him wondering why a penalty wasn't called. Then you get the box for diving, so rather than embellishing for a powerplay, your team is now shorthanded. Faggot.
>> Anonymous
>>117827

Oddly enough Crosby has rarely been in the box for diving.
>> Anonymous
>>117827
so basically you pull a Hartnell

got it
>> Anonymous
>>117840
A big part of the argument that the referees are too gentle with him is that very fact, you retard

It's hard to promote your golden boy when he's in the box weeping to himself