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For the fourth consecutive year, Sidney Crosby has won the ESPY award for being the best NHL player.
The award is basically a popularity contest, since fans vote for it at ESPN's website. Penguins.com points out that Crosby now pulls ahead of Penguins’ legend Mario Lemieux in the ESPY count, by a margin of 4 to 3.
The ESPY comes in contrast to the results of last month’s NHL awards, where Vancouver’s Henrik Sedin won the Hart Trophy for MVP, and Washington’s Alex Ovechkin won the newly named Ted Lindsay award for the NHL player’s vote for MVP. Crosby also won a share of the Rocket Richard Trophy (tied with Tampa’s Steven Stamkos with league leading 51 goals), and Crosby also won the Mark Messier Leadership Award.
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He kinda owns this award now, doesn’t he? Even though I don’t think it’ll exactly have a place of honor on his shelf, it is nice in a way that Crosby won the popularity contest. We hear so much from people who hate him (or claim to), at opposing arenas and online.
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by GreenEyedLilo on Jul 15, 2010 10:20 AM EDT reply actions
That’s a good point — Sid gets booed probably louder and in more arenas than any other current NHL player. But I think it’s mostly because he destroys their teams. Sure they loathe him in Philly and Washington, but other than that I think they mainly dislike what he does to the home team.
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by Jimmy Rixner on Jul 15, 2010 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions
One more piece of hardware for Sid. No complaints.
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by FrankD on Jul 16, 2010 12:42 AM EDT reply actions
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