How to Wash Crosby's Face Video

Paul Kukla asks: "Someone Want To Count The Crosschecks?"

Ok, Paul, I counted three and one more after it was over.

The refs missed all of them since the cross-checks were coming from NHL's poster boy. And what's up with picking on a smaller Zetterberg? Why not to try Todd Bertuzzi? Last year it was Malkin (6'3") who tried to beat up Henrik and he couldn't! Go, Zatta!

But pay attention before Wednesday, this is how Crosby scores the goals nowadays. Have to say, obviously the guy is smart, he figured he has no chance to score like Ovechkin because his wrister and slapshot are non-existent. So he goes to the net and starts shoving the puck, cross-checking people, that's the only place where he can score to keep up with Ovi. The only way to stop him is to play him physical, cross-check him like he does to others and when the ref is not looking (easy to say), hit him hard and often and he will disappear.

Here's an observation from the last game by Mats Wennerholm, Feb. 8, 2009, Aftonbladet:

I think that the game was decided at the end of the second period yesterday, when Washington actually went in to play physically against Crosby. I don't know how many hits he received in a single sequence. After that he almost disappeared from the game.

Update:

By Ansar Khan, mlive.com, March 22, 2010:

Crosby cross-checked and slashed Zetterberg several times in front of the Red Wings net, triggering a melee. First, Bertuzzi stepped in and gave Crosby a face wash, and then Howard got involved.

"He does that stuff all the time. Somehow he gets away with it," Howard said. "Z doesn’t take any of that. He went right back at him, and I stepped in there, too."

Said Zetterberg: "I saw Jimmy coming in with his glove and Crosby wasn’t there anymore."

by Red Rover, DC Landing Strip, "This Is Why People Think Crosby is a Turd":

I have to admit, sometimes I don't get the blind hatred for Sidney Crosby. He is a great hockey player and a respected leader of his teams. Recently he's even proven to be clutch. Let's just admit it, mmkay? So when people whine "Crysby" this and "whiny little bitch" that, I often shrug my shoulders and go "meh." Maybe it's just the hockey fan in me. But then a moment like tonight's comes along, and I am reminded why people think Sidney Crosby is a turd.

Now, the replay cuts in before we can see what incited #87, so the video is sort of lacking context. But short of Zetterberg slicing Crosby's first-born son to pieces - an impossibility considering that Crosby still lives with uncle Mario - context cannot explain the extent of this childish behavior. All that can explain it is "turdness."

The game is over. Zetterberg's back is turned. Accept defeat and move along. Don't cross-check a guy from behind to start a pointless fight. Ovechkin gets all the grief these days for being "dirty" and "reckless," but he'd never react to a loss like such a sore loser. You'd also never see Ovechkin sack-whacking his way into a fight he wasn't involved in...



...nor would you see Ovechkin jump and sucker punch a guy before a face-off (start at 0:36 mark):



I mean really. What a joke. So thank you, Mr. Crosby, for reminding me why I'm supposed to hate you. It'll make Ovechkin's inevitable triumph over you that much sweeter. I'm not even afraid of the jinx anymore. Ovechkin eats jinxes for breakfast and craps out victory.

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