Unfair to criticize Crosby: Penguins GM
Posted in Uncategorized on 03/10/2010 06:50 am by admin 
Penguins GM Ray Shero supports Sidney Crosby’s decision not to accept David Letterman’s invitation to present the Top 10 list. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
Pittsburgh Penguins total manager Ray Shero doesn’t deem it was favorable Sidney Crosby current criticism after declining each opportunity to appear on The Late Show With David Letterman.
The New York Post ran a story Sunday questioning Crosby’s decision to movement about a centre below the horizon an call to practise reading the show’sitting Top 10 elect during a stop in New York last week.
The file ran under the headline: “Crosby blows NHL’s golden fortuitous event.”
Shero conspicuous the Penguins star has had a packed schedule after scoring the winning goal at the Olympics and that the team was entering a stretch where it have a mind play four games in six days.
“At some cape, there’s a accountableness — that he takes actual seriously — about being a hockey player and preparing,” Shero related Tuesday at the NHL’s GM meetings in Boca Raton, Fla.
“To me, somewhat review for Sidney isn’t warranted. He does so much on the side of the game, so a great quantity for the league.
“He’sitting trying to make it all, and it’s unfortunate he can’confidentially do it all. But he does a lot.”
Shero listed everything Crosby has carried on since the extreme point of the Olympics to prove his point. The Penguins captain gave a number of one-on-one television interviews following his golden goal in Vancouver, during the time that furthermore keeping up with his perpendicular day-to-day media responsibilities.
The GM believes his player sets the standard at the time it comes to giving up his time.
“There’s no unit in the history of the game — Wayne Gretzky or Mario Lemieux — that’s performed more to promote the NHL than Sidney Crosby,” said Shero.
&transcript; The Canadian Press, 2010
