Do you think they cut out the part where Sid said, “Hey, remember the time you tried to take the captaincy away from me because I was suffering from a brain injury and was scared I may never get to play hockey again.”
Can we just talk about the kind trash human being you have to be to not only think this, but type it out and say to yourself, “yeah, this is a cool thing to post”
This is from back in December, when Sid was out hurt, he and Kathy (and Nick Bjugstad) took several kids from the children’s hospital and their families to a private movie screening.
Ducks Goalie, John Gibson talks the best goal scorers
What can I even say about Sid that hasn’t been said?
All I can do is show him embarrassing me.
I mean, the guy is basically being hacked down by our defensemen there and he somehow has the balance to stay on his feet and then ring one past me. The funny thing is (because all you can do is laugh), I’m from Pittsburgh. I grew up watching Sid play. And even when you think you’ve seen it all from him, he goes and one-ups himself.
Seeing him in his element like that and actually playing against him, it almost makes it even harder to describe why he’s so good.
It’s not really a good answer if I just tell you he’s good at everything — but he is. He can score any type of goal he wants, and he’s got the best backhander in the league, which is probably the worst thing you can read on a scouting report as a goalie. When he can just move the puck to his backhand and have just as much speed as on his forehand, it’s like having to defend against two players at once.
There’s an element of his game in all of the players I just mentioned. Every part of a pure goal scorer that you can think of, Sid has it. I’ve played against him quite a few times, and he’s scored some really impressive goals against me. Each time, when I watch it back on the highlights, you can see that Sid knows he’s going to score five seconds before the puck goes. He gets this movement about him, where he just gets into that zone — you’re not taking the puck off his stick because he’s putting it into the back of the net.
When you look at his stats over the years you can kind of see where the media started writing about his lack of goal scoring … and then he just goes and shows what he can do when he focuses on scoring.
He can do it all. And he knows when to show it.
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