I noticed their wasn't any threads on Sid The Kid.

Sydney is great but he needs to grow up a lot he is a whiny little bitc_h

Hey Skip, most people around here where I live when you say that Definatley wouldnt be appreciated. I really don't like that opinion and that language, but its your opinion and heres my reply to it.

If you say sidney is a whiney little... you know, how could you blame him. He was drafted with all these expetacions to become the next great one and to save Hockey in Pittsburgh. He had alotta weight on his shoulders and then he became the assistant with only around 3 months of NHL hockey. And then after that Lemieux retires so he's looked at as the captain figure. For and 18 year kid thats a pretty tough responsibility you know. Sidney has had some lash outs but Its only right, he's and 18 yr old, 'next great one', captain of a doomed hockey team.

Crosby will play and he will mature. The kid is 18... give him a break. Lots of Pressure is on him.

I know ther eis a lot of pressure, He is great, and the penguins will all grow and mature and become great, but it is not a good sign when your assistant captain the one you look up to is whining and complaing for most of the time so if he was a good assistant captain then he wouldn't do that, i think the penguins put to much pressure on him by putting the A on him and should of put it someone more seasoned, Malkin will obviously(SP?) help them when they get him playing with them and I think in a few years they'll be great, know Crosby's only 18 but if he wanted to play in the NHL he has to make sure he is ready and has to act how the other players do.

i have to aggree with skip on this one, if hes not ready to play in a league of men with out whining and crying at every call then he shouldint be in the league yet... also iv seen many times, him get frustrated and throw out a dirty spear or slash witch is dangerious to other players on the ice.. so if he cant take all the pressure he shouldint be in the nhl yet... or at least not of takin that A on his jersey, that kind of stuff is not what a leader is supposed to do

I agree that he shouldn't have the A (that was the coach's decision, not his), but his physical play, dirty or not, is pretty well what he needs to do right now to get through the league until he has an enforcer on his side. No one was there to protect him (even though they had Roy, but didn't use him right), so he had to go out there and retaliate at [censored]s who were goin after him because he was the rookie phenom. We all saw what Kovalchuk did to him when he was in the box, if the Pens had either bit of grit to them, the coach would have put someone out there to take the head clean off Kolavchuk. But hopefully he does mature a little and does become more deserving of the A on his chest in due time.

I'd like to agree... but when there's no Lemieux, no Palffy, no Recchi... who do you give it to? I know he was immature trying to start things up with Forsberg, Kovalchuk, Lundqvist, but still, talent-wise and leadership he is the top player on the team, regardless of age. He's got some maturing to do, no doubt. He earned the A though, probably not if he played for a club with some actual leaders but in that situation, gotta give it to him I think. Crosby's the exception to the rule.

^Yeah, in the situation, I guess he does the deserve the A (I think I read he is actually 7th overall on the team in games for the Pens, so there obviously isn't much experiance), but if you took any average NHL team pretty well, he'd at least have to wait 3 years or so for that A.

Wait a minute... You guys think Sidney's whiny?! HA! Sure he does more then his share of complaining, but there are guys out there who do enough whining and sookin for the whole team, and more besides! Ilya Kovalchuk? That guy whines more then a newborn! Not to mention he doesn't know a tap about how to play his position! Just watch him in a game sometime, He'll be playing left wing, and slowly venture his way over to the right hand side of the ice in the defensive zone, leaving his man wide open for a shot! I mean come on, 52 goals, and you're still a -6?! And it was him who started that business with Crosby in the first place I believe, and he who continued it. As for Sid, he just moved up from the Q-league, where he was a force, and there was rarely a time when he wasn't engaged with the puck, and therefore, got more calls towards him because the refs were watching him at all times. Now in the NHL, it's harder for them to track the little hacks and highsticks he's getting, so sure, he whines and complains, but only because he's used to getting those calls. And hey, at least he's not a diver! Those guys in my opinion are hockey's biggest sissys. They're the real sooks... Not Crosby.

^ I certainly didn't say he was a whiner, and you certainly know how I feel about him, lol.