Sidney Crosby was born in the year 1987 and he is a Canadian professional who plays Ice Hockey and he serves like the captain for Pittsburgh Penguins for National Hockey League or NHL. Crosby got drafted first overall under the Penguins in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League or QMJHL. During the two years in the major junior career where he was with Rimouski Oceanic, he got back to back CHL Player of the Year award and he led the club to reach to 2005 Memorial Cup Final. He was given the name of The Next One and he was considered as the highly regarded draft pick in hockey history and the 2005 draft lottery was called Sidney Crosby Sweepstakes.
In the NHL season, Crosby ended on the sixth in the league where he scored 102 points and he was the runner up in Calder Memorial Trophy. In the second season, he was at the top of the NHL when he got 120 points in order to capture Art Ross Trophy and he became the youngest player and also the only teenager that won the scoring time for Major North American Sports League. In this same season, he won The Hart Memorial Trophy when he was the choice of Professional Hockey Writers Association in the category of Most Valuable Player. He also got the Lester B Pearson Award for the NHL player Association to be the most outstanding player and he became the seventh player of NHL history who earned the three awards in just one year.
Sidney Crosby started in the year 2007 -08 season when he was the captain of the team and he led his team to reach to 2008 Stanley Cup Final but they lost to the Detroit Red Wings in the six games. Penguins reached to the finals in the following season and they won seven games and he became the youngest captain in the history of NHL who led his team to the winning of the Stanley Cup. In the season, he tied with Steven Stamkos.
According to the biography of Sidney Crosby, he had played international where he represented the country of Canada for the junior tournament and for men’s team. Sidney Crosby was born in Nova Scotia and his parents are Trina and Troy Crosby. His jersey number 87 and the singing of a contract worth 8.7 million for a year was to reflect his birth date and birth year, since he was born August, date seven in 1987. He started to play hockey alone in the basement when he was only 2 years and he was shooting to the drier of his family and at the age of 2 he learned how to skate. Sidney Crosby was dating Kathy Leutner, a model but it is not clear if she is still his girlfriend. His net worth is 45 million dollars.
Birth Date: | 7 Aug, 1987 |
Age: | 32 yrs |
Occupations: | Ice hockey player |
Citizenship: | Canada |
Birth Place: | Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia |
Gender: | Male |
Description: | Canadian ice hockey player |
Twitter Id: | S_Crosby87 |
Net Worth 2021: | 55 million |