Because of his longstanding love of backhand shots and passes, the blade of Sidney Crosby's stick is kept so straight that he could probably flip pancakes with the thing. Or carry around a glass of wine. Or putt on the 12th hole at Augusta National.
But let's get to the point, because this blade's also got quite the point.
"It's so straight that Sid can do a lot of things with that blade that you might not see other players do," Dana Heinze, the Penguins' equipment manager, was telling me late Saturday night. "You'll see him think a lot of things that you might not see other players think."
Again, he means.
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