Sidney Crosby throws a cheapshot, punches guy in the ass
Broad And Pattison — Gloves on. Third man in. Blindside. From behind. Kidney shot. Nut shot. Etc. Way to fight like a man, Sid. If this were any other player, especially a Flyer, he’d be suspended. The hypocrites running the NHL continue their reign.

Puck Headlines: Sidney Crosby trains on Valabik's speed bag
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Puck Headlines: Sidney Crosby trains on Valabik's speed bag
Puck Daddy — Here are your Puck Headlines: A glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. • In the Pittsburgh Penguins' game against the Atlanta Thrashers last night, Sidney Crosby jumped into the middle of a melee and starting throwing blows. OK, make that low blows. If you want to see the shot he gave Boris Valabik, check out the 12-second mark of this video. Or watch this much more theatrical version by YouTuber "vancityhockey": • ...

Defend this Pens fans....
Flyers Goal Scored By... — Last night sucked. Plain and simple, we got beat by a good team. Gotta just shake it off, it was going to happen sooner or later. Just have to wait and see how the team bounces back on what will be an awesome Saturday night game against OV and the Caps. Keep your head up Flyers fans. At least we don't have to root for Sidney Crosby. What a joke. Punch a dude in the balls when he's not looking. I don't know if that's just ghey, or being a pussy, or both. Enjoy the weekend flyers fans, get drunk tonight and I'll see you tomorrow for the pregame post. Lets Go Flyers.

If Avery Gets Six Games For Words Crosby Better Be Out for a While
The New York Rangers Blog — Check out this sucker punch to the head from behind by Sidney Crosby. Bettman needs to suspend Crosby for at least 20 games for this gross misconduct. Especially after sitting Sean Avery out six games for merely saying 'sloppy seconds." ...

Sidney Crosby's Fighting Style: Dirty as I Wanna Be
FanHouse — by Eric McErlain Filed under: Penguins, Thrashers, NHL Fights, NHL Videos Thanks to my buddy Greg Wyshynski for pointing to this video of Sidney Crosby getting involved in a scrum on Thursday night against Atlanta. Be sure to watch the whole thing, which includes a number of low blows as Crosby strikes Boris Valabik from behind while his teammate Kris Letang holds Valabik down. The last time I looked, anybody in the NHL who wants to fight needs to stand toe to toe with their opponent and drop the gloves. I guess Sid ...

Sid's Not a Kid Anymore, But He's Definitely Not a Man
The700Level.com - Philly Sports & Minutiae — There are a few things that are absolutely unacceptable in the hockey world. In this video, Sidney Crosby manages to fit in several of them. He punches somebody from behind, he "fights" with his gloves on, and when all else fails, he goes for the junk. Some posterboy for the NHL, huh? Via Broad and Pattison ...

Watch Your Back (and More) Around Sid Crosby
The Sporting Blog — From Puck Daddy by way of FanHouse do we get this lovely video detailing the competitive spirit and take-no-prisoners attitude of the ultimate winner, Sidney Crosby. Just keep your eye on the Kid. He'll be the one punching Atlanta's Boris Valabik in the back of the head and in the genitals. ...

Sidney Crosby Will Sucker-Punch Your Head and Genitals [Nhl]
Deadspin — Here's video evidence of Sid Vicious - also known as Sidney Crosby - landing a few blows to the back of the head of Boris Valabik. And because that wasn't bad enough, Crosby then throws a couple of haymakers at his opponent's balls. Because they had it coming, you see. Ah, hockey. So delightfully violent. Don't you ever change. Puck Headlines: Sidney Crosby trains on Valabik's speed bag [Puck Daddy] ...

Sidney Crosby will punch you square in the junk
The Scores Report - The National Sports Blog — Think Sidney Crosby is just a young hockey phenom with no gumption or toughness? Think again. Here’s evidence that Sid Kid will sucker punch you in the head and then just for good measure, jack you in your marbles and once in the balloon knot:

Sidney Crosby: Full Time Hockey Superstar - Part Time Proctologist
Straight From the Arse — Apparently the challenge of being a supreme hockey player with all world talent wasn’t enough for Sidney Crosby.  The NHL superstar has taken upon himself to administer on ice colon checks to help out his brethren in the NHLPA.   I guess that he’s getting bored of simply being the poster boy for the NHL and he ...

No California Trifecta
Ranger Pundit — After beating LA and Anaheim the Rangers were dreaming of a California sweep. No such luck as the Ranger offense kept shooting blanks in a 3-2 loss to the number one team in hockey, San Jose, that is now undefeated in regulation at home with a run of 17-0-2. The Rangers only goals were another unassisted goal, this one short handed, by Nikolai Zherdev , and Ryan Callahan, acting like a bowling ball picking up the ten pin, for a rebound. I stayed up for this one figuring the Rangers would give me an early morning birthday present. However, I should have known better. Counting either the day before, 12/20, or the actual date, 12/21, the Rangers have ...

What We Learned: On the obvious parallels between Mats Sundin and Mark Messier signing in Vancouver
The Two-Line Pass — Because I tend to not blog on the weekends, here is a feature that will run through the entire season. It aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact about each team. And hell, there’s a ton of other crap for me to blather on about too. And yes, I’m totally ripping off just about every other blogger ever’s weekly column, but that’s something you’ll have to deal with on your own time. Danger: This post contains language that some people might not like. This will be the only thing on the site that regularly does so. I’ve been sick ...

The Roundup: Anyone Working This Week?
The Big Lead — Any Marley Shelton fans in the house? … Republicans won’t like this, but it is a tremendous read … Hank Baskett sure has changed Kendra, who you may recall is a Playboy playmate … missed this sad ending late Friday … men and women agree: Megan Fox is the sexiest … Sidney Crosby, cheap shot artist? … good luck saying no to this … amazing that everyone walked away from this plane crash in Denver … this should sufficiently anger the masses this week … nice leather pants, Cheryl … after the jump, video ...

Penguins at Sabres Tonight
WNYMedia.net » BfloBlog — You want to feel encouraged by the teams play of late, but then you check the schedule and realize that in their last ten games the Sabres have accumulated exactly eleven points. Mediocre comes to mind. Thanks to a three-point game that saw Carolina beat Montreal in overtime last night, the Sabres are once again outside of a playoff spot, and trail sixth-place New Jersey by five points. But tonight’s opponent, the Penguins, are a mere two points ahead of Buffalo (with one game in hand) and hold the seventh spot. So, big game tonight. Despite the fact that the Pens are in a free-fall (4-5-12 in their last ten games, ...

Sid vicious - 12-22-08
Empty Netters — (We stole borrowed the headline from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.) This is few days old, but we felt compelled to bring up this video of a scrum between the Thrashers and Penguins from Thursday. During the fracas, Sidney Crosby punches Atlanta defenseman Boris Valabik from behind and below the belt: Crosby was given a roughing minor for that attack but was it enough? Punching anyone from behind, let alone in a sensitive area like that is hardly a minor transgression in our eyes. It's obvious Valabik did something to to anger Crosby, but ...

With Crosby disregard, NHL obviously endorses genital walloping
Puck Daddy — When it comes to analyzing the NHL's system of discipline, it's foolhardy to play the "if Player X had done Action Y, then he would have received Punishment Z" game of hypothetical comparisons. One, because acts of hockey violence are like snowflakes, in the sense that no two are alike and they quickly melt from memory by the time the next one arrives. But also because it's pointless to pretend that justice is blind to reputation, renown and fundamental political biases. We all know that if Patrick Kane had said "sloppy seconds," it'd probably already be on a T-shirt sold near Wrigley. And if ...

GAMEDAY [33] -- BUFFALO SABRES
The Pensblog - A Pittsburgh Penguin Site Managed By A Bunch Of Jokes That Can Barely Run Their Own Lives — 16-13-4 Is it just us or has Buffalo slowly moved up the chain of rivals for the Pens? Ever since the Winter Classic, we have hated Buffalo fans almost as much as any other fan base. Not to mention we cannot stand Lindy Ruff or any of the Sabres players. ...

Sidney Crosby High Stick Goal Against Buffalo Stands
FanIQ Blog — There are some people out there who believe that Sidney Crosby may get some kind of preferential treatment from the NHL. And you know what, this won't do anything to change their opinions on that. Last night, Sid the Kid scored the game winning goal for the Pittsburgh Penguins in overtime against the Buffalo Sabres. The question though was, did Crosby commit a high stick penalty in the process? Well, let's take a look. In all honesty, it's quite difficult to tell. It LOOKS like Sid's stick may have gone over the crossbar. And if you look at this screen ...

Crosby Conspiracy Time!
Four Habs Fans — You know, it's pretty amazing how this video of Sidney sucker punching Boris Valabek in the groin (repeatedly! from behind!) has been pretty much ignored. It made it onto Deadspin over the weekend and Puck Daddy spoke out yesterday, but generally this story has not really been discussed heavily in the MSM (if at all), and it looks like the NHL is going to do absolutely nothing about it. There is no doubt Bettman has silenced everyone. Except us! Fuck you, Gary. Stop playing favourites and take a stand. We will not stand for groin shenanigans unless strippers are involved.

Crosby Nails Guy In The Cubes; Nobody Cares?
The Power Play — Sidney Crosby is the NHL's golden boy. That's a statement that shouldn't surprise anybody. And because of this, and because the NHL has sunk tons of marketing dollars into Sid he gets away with a lot. That apparently includes punching an opposing player in the groin repeatedly from behind. You read that right. During last Thursday's game between the Penguins and the Thrashers, Crosby proceeded to sucker punch Thrashers d-man Boris Valabik in the head and then in the groin while he was down on the ice. I kid you not. (Video is down below for proof) Why this story hasn't been covered more, or why Crosby hasn't been ...

Sidney Crosby Gets Carte Blanche For Sucker-Punching Your Genitalia [Nhl]
Deadspin — Good news for fans of nutshots everywhere: The NHL's ridiculous star treatment of the Pittsburgh Penguins' Sidney Crosby continues. Crosby broke almost every unwritten rule hockey has last week when he uppercutted Atlanta's Boris Valabik in the junk ... from behind ... with his gloves on. If he'd been listening to Maroon 5 on his iPod during all of this, we could have given him a lethal injection on the spot. Crosby was clearly the third man into the fracas with Valabnik and that alone merited an automatic ejection, instead of the measly two-minute roughing call he received. The Thrashers have turned to the NHL for ...

Habs - Watch Out For Crosby, He Might Just Sack Your Bag!
Habs Eyes On The Prize —     Sorry, but I didn't get the memo from Gary Bettman advising me to hush this up.... It has been nine days now since the Sidney Crosby / Boris Valabik incident, and still no call on it from the NHL. Ostriches! For those who missed the incident, and apparently many have, in a game against the Atlanta Thrashers on December 18, Crosby became involved in a scuffle near the goal crease, before tagging on as the third man in, in a fight involving the Penguins Kris Letang and Atlanta's Valabik. The Pittsburgh defenseman was taking care of himself quite ...

Taking Out The Trash
Bob's Blog - Live from Lewisville — And now, as I clean off 1,000 emails and return from vacation clean shaven, with an empty email box, and an empty blog notebook, you get what we will call: “Things that have been emailed to me and are now being put together in a blog that will at least burn 30 seconds of your life” This first one was emailed to me the other day from something called the Dallas Business Journal. Friday, August 7, 1998 … `Sturminator' replacing Miller on `The Ticket' You may have noticed that Max Miller, evening talk show host on KTCK-AM ("The Ticket" 1310), went on vacation a few weeks ago -- and ...

Mid-Holiday Linkstravaganza
TheScore.com Blog — + Merry Christmas everyone, if you celebrate, and here's hoping that during the holiday season, you were able to hang out with people who know how to have fun the way that the family in this Drunk Santa Falls Off Roof video do... + And here's hoping you didn't get locked into any conversations with relatives who were as pissed as Jeff Goldblum in one of those slowed-down "Drunk Jeff Goldblum" videos. Like this one... + With Leather has a rather outstanding gallery of Paraguayan ...

An Insider's Opinion On Crosby Punching A Guy In The Crotch
The Power Play — All around the interwebs there was outrage last week over the Sidney Crosby punching Boris Valabik repeatedly in the crotch and not being suspended incident. I'll admit I was one of those people who didn't understand how you could get away with doing that. In any other sport, punching a guy in the crotch would get you sent home for awhile. But this is hockey, and maybe that's what makes this sport great. Instead of just playing the outraged hockey writer role and condemning Crosby for his actions, I instead decided to put my college diploma in television broadcasting to good use and do ...

B's look for #9 before ringing in '09
Stanley Cup of Chowder — The Bruins will try to close out 2008 with their ninth straight win. The only thing standing in their way is the Pittsburgh Penguins, one of only a handful of teams to beat the B's this season. Just who are these Penguins that you speak of? Pittsburgh Penguins 19-13-4; 42 pts (4th in Atlantic, 7th in East) Leading Goal Scorers Evgeni Malkin: 15 Goals (15-44-59) Sidney Crosby : 15 Goals (15-34-49) Goaltending Marc-Andre ...

Sidney Crosby Keeps Picking Ugly, Unfair Fights
SPORTSbyBROOKS — Sidney Crosby is a punk? Don’t scoff, he’s really acting like it over the past couple of weeks. With the Penguins mired in a catastrophic losing skid, Crosby picked his second fight against an unsuspecting victim in two weeks, and his moves this time around were just as lowbrow as they were the first time ...

Hockey Fight of the Day: Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh Penguins vs Brett McLean, Florida Panthers
FanIQ Blog — Sidney Crosby won this fight, without a doubt. But nothing about it makes him a winner. I have no idea what he's trying to do here, other than make a name for himself as the most pathetic wuss in the NHL. First, there was his cheap shot on Boris Valabik, and now this. I'm all for a good fight, and I think that it adds a lot of excitement to the game of hockey. I'm not the biggest hockey fan on the planet, but I think there are a few unwritten rules about fighting. The first of which is that you should always agree to fight, instead of just ambushing someone, especially as their ...

Hockey Roundup [Whoo!!]
We Eat Children — Previous Post: Better School Spirit Through Streaking [Whoo!!!] Hockey Roundup [Whoo!!] We have the continued odd behavior Sid “The Kid” Crosby, the miracle on zmrzlinový (that’s ice in Slovak) ground to a halt and Todd Bertuzzi singlehandedly won a hockey game for the Calgary Flames against the Nashville Predators.  Crosby Losing It? We’ll start off with the video.  Superstar, face of the NHL and object of Alexander Semin derision Sidney Crosby loses his mind and jumps Florida Panther center Brett McLean off the faceoff. I love to see hockey players lose their shit like this, the fact that it was Sydney Crosby doing the ...

Sidney Crosby's Fight: What Was it and What Could it Mean for his Image?
Movable Type System Activity — Everybody's seen it already. With about three minutes left in the second period Sidney Crosby jumped Brett McLean off of the faceoff. It's been called everything from courageous to cowardly, from motivational to a cheap shot. So what was it? Was it a team ...

Non-Boston Related Hockey Thoughts
The Goose's Roost — by Ryan Since both football games today have been pretty sleepy, let's talk about some hockey tidbits before finally getting to the Sabres game yesterday. - The numbers from the Winter Classic are in, and it's safe to say it was another big success. The market shares are pretty interesting, so let's check out the top five: Top 10 Metered Markets: 1. Chicago 11.8/21 2. Detroit 10.5/20 3. Buffalo 10.1/20 4. St. Louis 5.3/10 5. Pittsburgh 4.4/8 Of course the first two Winter Classic cities are in there, but the fact that Buffalo almost matched Detroit's ...

Sunday Smorgasbord 1-4
Bleatings From a Caps Nut — All four home teams in the NFL Playoffs this weekend were underdogs and two of them still won. It goes to show just how much Vegas knows but is also a clear indication that the NFL has pretty much achieved the parity that it longs for. Oddly enough, it was the six seeds Bhawlmuher and Philly that lived up to the expectations and now face the number one seeds next weekend. However, all four home teams are the favorites and don't expect all four to win next weekend either. And speaking of playoffs, if it is the New Year, it must be time for the "unbiased" media to once again complain about the College Bowl System, more specifically, the ...

Hot Clicks: Erin And Rey Get Down
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Pussy Sydney Crosby strikes again
NHL Hockey Fights — Well if you missed it Saturday you missed some more cheap shit by NHL super star Sydney Crosby. Crosby jumps Brett McLean off a faceoff and pulls his sweater over McLean's head and continues throwing punches while McLean can't see. That's pretty classless for a guy who is suppose to be the super star of the NHL. And after the game he says McLean agreed to fight, well if you watch the video below you'll see McLean have no idea what Crosby is doing as he is trying to win the faceoff and Crosby drops the gloves and grabs McLean. ...

A Walk Down Youtube Lane
Flyers Goal Scored By... — Sid the Kid didn't have a bad showing in his first ever NHL scrap.... But he has had some embarassing moments since then... And then pulled a "tough guy" move on a unsuspecting victim... Sidney, if you want to shake your rep and prove you're tough do two things tongiht: Keep your mouth shut and finish what started here....

Pre-cap: Capitals vs. Penguins
Capitals Kremlin — "Ovechkin is a great player, but every time he hits me -- I don't know why." - Evgeni Malkin "What's so special about [Crosby]? I don't see anything special there." - Alexander Semin "We'll stick up [for Malkin], like you would for any teammate..." - Sidney Crosby Tonight's matchup between the Penguins and Capitals will likely be more than a routine meeting between the teams. While there is an incredible amount of back-story heading into this game thanks to Alex Ovechkin, Alex Semin, Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby, it also could be a turning point for both ...

Sharks Gameday: A Back To Back Means A Little Stat
Fear The Fin — @ 4:30 PST 37-7-7, 81 points 26-24-5, 57 points 1st in Pacific Division 4th in Atlantic Division ...

"Alex Ovechkin has no class"
Capitals Kremlin — According to Penguins post-game show host, Bob Grove, Alex Ovechkin is a classless player. He's absolutely right... Alex Ovechkin could never... be as classy as Sidney... Sorry Bob Grove but all I hear is wah-wah-wah. Sounds like someone you know right? 5-2 UPDATE: Let's see who starts "the argument" between Ovie and Crosby... So who was classless? Or are Pens fans just trying to justify a loss when ...

"Nut" Karma?
The Program — Sid Crosby punches Boris Valabik in the balls! Most of the following is actually true and only some of it is speculation. What is true is that Sidney Crosby did indeed leave practice early today with a sore groin. ...

Stanley Cup Finals anti-preview
The Triple Deke — We've already proved that we're not into doing the typically massive, all-knowing preview.  We suck at those.  And yet, the jabronies at Blogger still demand that we pump out at least one post acknowledging the Wings/Pens series before it commences. What follows are seven arbitrary ...

Roundtable: Red Wings bloggers break down finals, Pens fans
Puck Daddy — Ah, the plight of the Detroit Red Wings fan. A never-ending pipeline of versatile players who range from all-stars to Hall of Famers. Enough banners to fully clothe a brontosaurus. An existence defined by high expectations, glorious fulfillment and hands that smell like Admiral Akbar. The Wings face the Pittsburgh Penguins for the second consecutive year, in an attempt to win their second consecutive Stanley Cup. We invited some of the best and brightest Red Wings bloggers to take a seat at our roundtable and preview the finals, discuss the Penguins player they most fear and to give their impressions ...

sir, do you have a license?
nhLOL — skip to main | skip to sidebar nhLOL nashunal hocky league o' laffs "it's mildly entertaining" 7.14.2009 sir, do you have a license? [image] [image] [image] Labels: medical procedures , milan lucic , things i'd rather not think about 1 comments: Arenacale said... Sidney Crosby approves Lucic's technique. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wqR17KrLKw 7/14/09 9:17 PM [image] Post a Comment Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) steps: 1. make ur own 2. send it in [image] many ...

Armchair Psychology: Patrick Kane Puts On the Foil
The Phoenix Pub — So while I was on vacation, Chicago Blackhawks star Patrick Kane and his cousin James Kane were arrested for allegedly assaulting one Jan “Don’t Call Me ‘Jan Hammer’” Radecki, a 62-year-old Buffalo cab driver over a 5 AM cab fare. Needless to say, I was not terribly surprised when a message from Phoenix Pub powers ...

Bad Hockey Plays
Gunaxin » Sports — 44803_penguins_panthers_hockey It’s finally that time again. NHL STARTS! So let’s get the season started by reflecting on some of the most awful moments from recent years. We’ll purposely ignore some of the ugliest moments involving Todd Bertuzzi, Chris Simon, and Marty Mcsorely. Hockey Blooper Reel: Missing empty net: Missing empty net #2 : Tie Domi fights fan and here are a few from last season… Scoring on own empty net Alexander Semin’s fight John Tortorella Attacks Cap Fan With Water Bottle & Stick Crosby attacks Mclean Crosby Cheap Shot…and Crosby again, whining about Hats ...

Abundant NHL Injury Bug: Causing Problems for Some; Solving Others
hockey plumber — While Canadiens coach Jacques Martin was audibly cursing on the bench last night, he must have been silently wondering if injured, star blueliner Andrei Markov could have made any difference in Vancouver's 7-1 drubbing of Montreal. In another Province, Maple Leafs coach Ron Wilson found a blessing in ...

Hartnell “bites” Letang: the Flyers are goons!
The Hockey Writers — Scott Hartnell is one of the most hated skaters in the NHL according to players and fans. (Neat1325) Some things never change. Penguins fans will always claim that the Flyers are a bunch of goons, and Flyers fans will always claim that the Penguins are a bunch of cheaters. There’s always little bit of truth as ...