It's wild to me that Crosby has been in the league for 15 years. So much has happened since he was drafted but it really feels like yesterday that he was still "the kid," or getting accolades as "the youngest player" to do something.
I know it's been talked to death, but looking back on his career, it's hard not to wonder what could have been if not for all the time he missed in 2011-12. I really do think we might have seen something like a 130+ point season from him.
watching Last Dance and rewatching basically the entire career of Sid and Geno in the last two months, I got this pretty confident opinion:
Sid and Geno are somewhat underated...they have been so good for so long...consistently playing with a bunch of average wingers and yet just raising the level of each and every one around, while keeping the really high points per game average. One thing I wish I could come up with would be a shooting percentage on High danger chances by their linemates set up by Geno and Sid. One thing in rewatching so many games that struck with me was how many glorious chances their linemates missed.
Jordan won 6 titles starting at age 28, first threepeat 28-31, second threepeat 32-35
Sid and Geno won the first cup when they were in their early 20 and then came atotal incompetence by Penguins management that basically deprived them from winning at least 5-6 titles ...Shero and Bylsma just f***ed everything up for them...(Ok Sid's concussion and medical mismanagement including) they surrounded them with inadequate players, Bylsma coaching was awful, luckily GMJR and Sully fixed that and gave them fighting chance and more...
Btw Geno again lead the league in points/60 minutes this year...