Sid the Kid shows children how it is done in extraordinary: the 10 observations of Yohe
PITTSBURGH – Children were fine.
The child was too.
A long time has passed since it was prudent to refer to Sidney Crosby as Sid the Kid, but has not resembled his age in recent weeks and has dazzled all day of Sunday at the PPG Paints Arena before burying the winner of the game in the extraordinary for the sole goal of the game while the Pittsburgh’s Penguins defeated the defeat.
Sudden death for Sidney! 🚨 pic.twitter.com/7dwlaa9ttg
– Pittsburgh Penguins (@Penguins) March 30, 2025
The prospects announced Rutger McGroarty and Ville Koivunen have joined the Penguins of Wilkes-Barre (Ahl) Sunday. McGroarty, celebrating his 21st birthday, played in his fourth NHL game and his first next to Crosby on the upper line. Koivunen made his debut in the NHL.
Everyone was hit by beginners.
“I thought (McGroarty) played well,” Crosby said. “He was on the album, in The Forecheck, he created turnover, he had a couple of possibilities on the net. He competed very hard.”
McGroarty had three shots on goal and recorded four shots. Koivunen launched two shots on the net and was evident throughout the evening, its speed and annoying chase on the disc are quite evident everywhere.
Mike Sullivan clearly liked what he saw in Koivunen’s game.
“I was curious to see how villas would manage the size and speed and I thought I had managed it very well,” said Sullivan. “I can’t wait to look at him more.”
While those two were the main story, Tristan Jarry bounced with an unexpected 31-vagal Shatout after being torn in consecutive departures.
And then there was Crosby. Now it has a series of 10 -games scores and has produced at least one point in 16 of 18 games after the 4 nations.
With the game linked to the end of the third period, Crosby absorbed a bad cut on the left arm by the defender of Ottawa Artem Zub. Crosby reacted with a fist and both were sent to penalty.
Artem Zub and Sidney Crosby were going to us 😳 pic.twitter.com/iaglfaionk
– Gino Hard (@ginohard_) March 30, 2025
It is served by lessons for beginners: when Crosby gets angry, something good is usually about to happen. And so he did.
Crosby replied leaving the penalty in the last seconds of regulation and drawing a Ridly Greig penalty with three second seconds in the regulation. The end of the game was quite predictable at that point.
Standing in the right circle, Crosby torn a goalkeeper from an Anton Forsberg timer to send the crowd at home happy. For a team that has won only 30 games throughout the season, it should be noted that this was the seventh winning count of Crosby.
Was there some anger behind that blow?
“Nah,” Crosby said. “I had passed. Just a nice passage from (Erik Karlsson). He put it on a shirt.”
Ten Post -Parita observations
• The skating of McGroarty will never be the brand of his game, but it is considerably better than in the training field. This tells me that more than anything else, he is putting the job.
When you look McGroarty play, you will notice that his hockey qi is really high. Always knows where to go. I thought it was perfectly solid in his first NHL game since October. Playing with Crosby is not an easy task and must be a little intimidating for someone of his age, but he managed it well.
I think the speed of the NHL game will take some time for him. Sometimes he keeps on the disc for a fraction of a second longer than he should. This is not a criticism, but simply an observation. He will come, I think. He just needs to play.
• Koivunen is not a particularly big boy, but I love everything about his game. He has an annoying discomfort for him on ice, which makes sense, because all Finnish players seem to have that attribute. It has a large couple of wheels, which was obvious all the game. This is an excellent skater, both in terms of pure speed and agility.
He was very close to connecting to a couple of beautiful appearances. This is a player with a dynamic touch for his game he is transforming with offensive rise. All considered, I thought it was very good in this game and as Sullivan, I want to see more.
Vili Koivunen made its debut in the NHL against the senators. (Charles Leclaire / Imagn Images)
• What Crosby is doing right now is going under the radar. No, I’m not talking about the leading record for game that established Thursday in Buffalo, or even to his current series of scores from 10 games. I’m simply talking about the quality of the game.
This was one of his best games of the season. It is absolutely blocked right now as if we haven’t seen for some time, and probably not from the stretch of last season. Each step was perfect. Every decision was perfect. Everything about his game at the moment is absolutely perfect.
And that blow was something to see in person. Rarely shoot a rocket like this. Just a beauty thing.
• Rickard Rakell almost marked on a couple of occasions and, all considered, he played well in the center. This is not his natural position and it takes a lot of professionalism so that a wing of the star moves simply to the center in the 75th match of the season.
Without the injured Evgeni Malkin, the penguins do not have many answers in the middle behind Crosby. Rakell is a professional and managed it well.
• Try to understand Jarry one day and will surprise you next.
Jarry was spectacular for two weeks after his call by Wilkes-Barre. So he had two absolutely brutal outings in Tampa Bay and Buffalo, getting torn in both games. I was surprised that Sullivan returned to him.
For Jarry’s merits, he demonstrated the decision to be accurate. Make 31 parades out of 31 shots speaks for itself. It was exceptional.
What will you do at your next start? Your hypothesis is as good as mine.
• I thought that Zub’s bar was at the top and that the penguins should have received a game of power even if Crosby reacted. It is a dirty and dangerous bar and has simply been guaranteed. Crosby barely touched the goalkeeper glove on that game and the compromise at that stage of the game is obvious, and something of which an official veteran like Dan O’Rourke must be aware.
Also … I hate looking a neanderthal, but I’m quite adamant for this. If I am on the ice while a member of the Pitgsburgh Penguins and someone cuts Sidney Crosby, 37 years old, absolutely loses his head and I assure I know that Zub knows who I am in a short time. Especially when the results of the game do not really count for penguins at this stage.
Yes, McGroarty is a child. Bryan Rust, Karlsson and Matt Grzelcyk, who are not exactly Pougilists, were the only other ice players. But anyway. I just don’t like it. Crosby has absorbed abuses like that for all his career and too often he was forced to face him alone. I will never understand why this is fine with penguins.
• Of ‘What you want on Noel Stes. The fact is that it is so slow that it fights to be an effective NHL player at this stage of his career.
You can’t say that she doesn’t work hard, though. He was attributed seven shots in this game, blocked two shots and worked as always as he always does. It is not cute to look at, but he is an easy player to respect.
• I don’t like Kris Letang’s game at all right now. Something is not very going with him. It was evaluated in five tributes to the maximum, which sounds to the right. He has struggled strongly and hasn’t had a nice appearance for more than a month.
• The senators seem to be a safe bet to make the playoffs and here it hopes that Toronto will win the Atlantic Division, so we get the battle of Ontario in the first round. I think Ottawa is a matchup of the first round and I will not evaluate them with this lifeless performance.
They played Detroit on Thursday, Saturday at home, and then they had to play 22 hours later in Pittsburgh. It is brutal and unjust programming. Each team must sometimes face it, but the relative no-show of the senators is understandable.
• Penguins have two sections of three days of rest during the rest of the season, which is a strangeness of peculiar programming. Next is a game in St. Louis on April 3 against the hot blues.
(Top photo of Sidney Crosby that escapes two senators: Charles Leclaire / Image Images)
