" And at the age of fourteen, he appeared on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Hockey Day in Canada. Sidney Crosby was quite possibly the most hyped up teenager trying to make the break into the National Hockey League, well at least since Wayne Gretzky was trying to do the same some thirty years ago. Crosby’s draft year was even more so hyped up because it came directly after the National Hockey League lockout which lasted an entire season. For that reason, Crosby’s fate was determined by a weighted lottery system rather than the traditional drafting system, in which the Pittsburgh Penguins drew the ball for the opportunity to draft “Sid the Kid” first overall.
Canada
20 December 2007
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