#Seth { 4 }

[lil-bastard]

Team Canada singing O Canada as they celebrate winning the 4 Nations Face-Off.

[intheupside]

When Drew Doughty got his first taste of best-on-best hockey, he was the youngest member of Team Canada at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, and things didn’t start so well for him.

Naturally, it was a conversation with one of the “veterans” that helped him reverse course and turn the event into a career-shifting experience.

Never mind that the player was just two years, four months and one day older than Doughty. It was the type of player who was born a veteran.

It was Sidney Crosby.

“He was young,” Doughty recalls, “but I remember after one of our first practices I was walking onto the bus and he was like, ‘Hey, come sit beside me.’ That was the first time I had a real conversation with him. He knew I was nervous as hell, and he brought me in and sat me down.”

In addition to the physical and mental gifts that made him one of the sport’s few truly generational players, the 37-year-old possesses a level of awareness and emotional intelligence that have taken him to another level entirely.

As close friend Nathan MacKinnon puts it: “I’m sure there’s a lot of successful people that no one really wants to be around, but guys just gravitate towards him. He’s got an awesome personality. He’s a great storyteller. He’s just a fun guy to be around.”

MacKinnon says it’s Crosby’s first time playing with a team full of his biggest fans and, while half-joking, that sentiment rings true. Doughty and Brad Marchand are the only players he’s previously won with. And ask the younger players on the roster about their personal encounters with No. 87 during this event and they light up.

Mitch Marner says his overtime winner over Sweden was surreal because it came on an assist from his boyhood hero. Thomas Harley calls Crosby a “god,” adding, “You’ll go blind if you look at him too long.” And 23-year-old Seth Jarvis is still buzzing about the fact Crosby took the time to introduce himself following a Carolina Hurricanes-Pittsburgh Penguins game in January.

“Well, f—,” Jarvis says. “I wasn’t about to approach him. I’d be a little starstruck.”

You can take the boy out of Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, but fame and fortune never took any of the Cole Harbour out of Crosby.

Marchand could only chuckle during a recent dinner at his buddy’s house in suburban Pittsburgh when he walked into the living room and saw a rocking chair made entirely out of wood from Halifax.

“That’s what he sits in every day,” Marchand says. “He’s just a very down-to-earth guy, which at his level and the things that he’s accomplished doesn’t happen often. A tremendous amount of respect for him.”

Everyone here does.

so beloved

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

tacky

[tysonhos]

there they are

[atomicckittens]

lmao he dragged croz

[agir1ukn0w]

holy shit I just realized they've never seen fire before

[tvheit]

she'll be right

[vanderbilt-draws]

they are actually married

@brediest-littleguy @secretly-larry-daley

[r-truth]

[dayurno]

this is like. not a real issue but out of all the ways kevin gets mischaracterized i think my least favorite is when people assume he is a sore loser and, specifically, will be one when the foxes lose against the trojans. 1) kevin has been playing exy for as long as he has been able to pick up a racquet, he is more than used to losing gracefully and probably had to learn it the hard way 2) the foxes lose a whole lot. like a Lot. they’re a bad team. when they first lose to the ravens kevin’s reaction is to say that despite their flaws he was happy with their performance, because he is not stupid and he knows when they are not evenly matched against a better opponent 3) he LOVES the trojans. he knew the trojans would beat the foxes in tkm and he was still just happy to be in their court. he warned jeremy to not throw away their game even if he was certain the foxes were going to lose if jeremy didn’t. if there is one thing kevin doesn’t do in exy it’s underestimate his opponents and, especially for the trojans’ case, there is very little in the world he’d like to see better than jean winning with the trojans. cope. stop fantasizing about kevin day getting humbled like he’s your middle school bully

[vicciouxs]

BAND KIDS !!

[rask]

4 NATIONS - feb 12, 2025

marchy goal

[intheupside]

sid wants coldplay 😂

[annieqattheperipheral]

happy lil slut having the time of his life💕

[poke-checked]

He doesn’t know what goalie interference is

[3416]

jon cooper talking about who the court jesters are in the locker room.... he's proud of the tampa boys, loves seth jarvis, and says mitch lights up the room every time he comes in