What's wrong with all of you people ! Don Cherry can say what ever he wants on HIS radio Show, it's is prerogative. For the people saying that Crosby lied, i don't think he did lied, he is injured and fatigued the fact that he's scoring like crazy and didn't miss a game is irrelevant. (begin sarcasm) Everybody know there is no hitting in the Q and it's the most offensive league in the universe... heck even a blind man in a wheelchair could score 20 goals in the Q...... (sarcasm over)
What i mean is that a lot of player play with small injury all year long, it doesnt mean that they should deliver and be part of every project promoted by their league.
A lot of kids buy tickets to go see a Canadien's practice once a year. It's a corporate event for the whole family last year some guy that were slightly injured didn't participate and it's logic, nothing to gain in this.
Nobody said that Crosby was close of dying but. If a kid played in the WJC, has a team with a f*ck up schedule to make sure that everybody in the league don,t miss a chance to see him, as lot's of important game coming up with is regular team, fighting for a better spot for the playoffs. and is the clean known number one prospect in the game and he decided that he's not feeling well enough to participate, well, that's is prerogative and nobody should deny that. You could be angry and frustrated cause you didn't have a chance to see him play but geez get over it.
Look what happen to Bobby Ryan with the hit from Bourret, i'm sorry to tell everyone this, but Crosby hurt for 4 to 6 weeks would have hurt the Rimouski Oceanics and the Q to a far grater extend than having Sydney miss the game....
So people miss a game and one night of highlights big deal, he's in the news scoring points every teo days....
Let's put it this way, if Gilbert would have played in the WJC, have a crazy schedule, been the consensus # 1 and the game would have been played in Halifax, who knows, he might have done the same as Crosby... (And don't come and say, he would not have done that, he's not like that. BALONEY, you know squat, unless you are gilbert Brule and are on this board incognito....)
By the way for all you Crosby critique, he did miss the two games against Russia that the Q played, and nobody cried for weeks about it so please.....
Is it sad he miss the game? Definetly
Could it had be done in a different way? Probably
Should he get all the harsh critism about it? I don't think so....
Let the kid play and cross your finger he can carry is lousy team to the Memorial Cup. If they make it, be sure that he will play, injured or not....