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Who Is The Youngest NHL Captain To Win Stanley Cup?
NHL has seen many teams winning the Stanley Cup but there have been only a few who have been able to make a legacy out of the win. Such is the story of the youngest NHL captain who won Stanley Cup.
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Being the captain of an NHL club is a difficult assignment. They are the franchise's face, the one player who represents his club both in front of the crowd and on the ice when the game is on the line. There have been many outstanding leaders in NHL history, and many young players have received the letter.
Who is the youngest NHL captain to win the Stanley Cup?
Sidney Crosby was appointed captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins on May 31, 2007, at the age of 19 years. In 2007, he became the NHL's (National Hockey League) youngest captain to win the Stanley Cup title.
Crosby has led the Pittsburgh Penguins to four Stanley Cup Finals and won the Cup three times - in 2009, 2016, and 2017. He has played over 1000 NHL games and scored 550 goals over his career.
The Penguins organization was permanently transformed when they chose Crosby first overall in 2005; he was a no-brainer to be appointed captain of the club.
Who is Sidney Crosby?
Sidney Crosby was born and raised in Halifax. Crosby was one of the most acclaimed prospects in ice hockey history, and he is largely recognized as one of the best players of all time.
In his sophomore year of high school at Faribault, Minnesota, he scored 72 goals and assisted 90 times in 57 games. This performance drew the attention of ice hockey superstar Wayne Gretzky, who predicted that Crosby would one day eclipse his own records.
In 2003, Rimouski Océanic, a Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team, selected Crosby, who went on to record 120 goals and 183 assists in 121 regular-season games across two years. Every year, he was crowned Canada's best junior player. He also joined the Canadian National Junior Hockey Team, where he became the youngest player to score a national team goal.
Crosby, at 18, was the Penguins' first choice in the 2005 NHL draft. Expectations were high for the young talent, who was called "The Next One," a pun on Gretzky's nickname "The Great One"). Crosby became the youngest NHL player to collect at least 100 points (goals plus assists) in a single season at the end of his rookie year (2005-06).
Crosby has previously represented Canada internationally. He earned gold at the 2005 World Junior Championships and was then selected to Team Canada for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In the gold medal game against the United States, he scored the winning goal in overtime.
Crosby led Team Canada to victory at the 2014 Winter Olympics, his second gold medal in a row. A year later, he led his country to win gold at the World Championship in Prague, joining the Triple Gold Club as the only player to have captained all three winning teams. Crosby guided Canada to gold in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey and was unanimously voted MVP.
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