Crosby gets drilled by rival players for his on-ice antics

NHL superstars have mostly been quiet since the league elected to put the 2019-20 season on pause amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. However on Thursday, NHL superstar Sidney Crosby was joined by Claude Giroux, Marc Staal and Jordan Staal on a conference call with the media to discuss the league’s current situation.

It didn’t take long before they started to chirp at one another, as they would do on the ice, as the Stall brothers and Giroux managed to gang up on Crosby. 

“Sid’s always slashing me in the back of the legs, I don’t miss that,” Marc Staal said during the video call.

Crosby attempted to come back, saying his back feels better than usual now because, “I don’t have to deal with [Marc Staal’s] cross-checks in front”, but Giroux was already on his case about the face-offs. 

“Jordan and Sid, they cheat so much in face-offs, I don’t miss that.”

Crosby quickly laughed it off and added: 

“That’s funny. I was going to say the same thing about you.”

Crosby and Giroux have gotten into more than once in the face-off circle. It is well-known around the league that the Flyers captain needed surgery on his wrists after the 2012 playoffs quarterfinals when Philly faced off in a heated battle against the Penguins. 

“Those are from Crosby,” Giroux had said back in 2012 when showing off the scars on his wrists. “Every time we’d line up against each other for a face-off during our (2012 playoff) series, instead of going for the puck when it was dropped, he’d hack me across the wrists. I ended up playing the series against (New) Jersey with one of them fractured and had to go for surgery on both of them after we were out of the playoffs.”

While the star players were talking about what they don’t miss from the game during the NHL shutdown, we sure miss the guys chirping at one another on the ice. 

Thanks for this, boys!