It makes you gel as a team. It all starts from him, the things that he does people might not see. Jordy Bellerive earned an invitation to training camp as an undrafted free agent forward. The day after training camp started, the team announced that Bellerive had earned a three-year, entry-level contract. After the news got out, the first person to approach Bellerive was, of course, Crosby.
So that was pretty cool. It was so unexpected that it took Bellerive a minute to figure out whom the text was from. Then this year, he was the first guy to come up and talk to me at training camp. It was really nice of him and pretty nice to hear from him right when I got here, too.
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Crosby would not have been the youngest had the Penguins waited until the season started in October to give him the C, as he turns 20 on Aug.
Or the very reason why Crosby chose not to ascend to the captaincy midway through a season in which the Penguins won 47 games and made the playoffs after winning only 22 games the season before. As a team, we were playing great and you don't want to disrupt things like that," Crosby said. Going through the playoffs and having that experience has probably given me more confidence. To Shero, the maturity Crosby showed in carefully weighing the decision before declining to become the captain last winter illustrates why, in his first two NHL seasons, Crosby has played well beyond his years.
Crosby followed up his point season at age 18 by totaling points this season, beating out San Jose's Joe Thornton for the scoring title by six points. Crosby talked to several veteran players before agreeing to be the captain -- including forwards Mark Recchi and Gary Roberts , both of whom are more than twice his age. Recchi and Roberts are not signed for next season, but the Penguins want them back. Crosby becomes the 15th player to wear the Penguins' C. Penguins co-owner Mario Lemieux wore it three different times: from , from after sitting out a season for health reasons and again from after he came out of retirement.
The Penguins had four alternate captains last season, including Crosby. Crosby is entering the third season of the three-year entry-level contract he signed after being the No. Shero and Crosby's agents, Pat Brisson and J. Barry, are expected to begin discussing a contract extension when the NHL free-agent signing period starts July 1. Skip to main content Skip to navigation.
Oh, captain! Crosby youngest to get C in history.
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