Sidney Crosby Rumors & News

Unlike most teams, the Penguins have the luxury of having two former Hart Trophy winners on their roster in the form of Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. But just like every other team, the Penguins have to stay under the NHL's salary cap which is expected to drop to $64.3 million for next season. The Penguins will enter the 2013-14 campaign with each player accounting for $8.7 million against the salary cap. At a combined 17.4 million, no two teammates currently signed to any NHL roster heading into next season will have higher combined salary cap hit. Does that leave the Penguins enough sala...

Talk about good timing, here is a story about Nathan MacKinnon and the similarities between himself and Sidney Crosby. The first time Nathan MacKinnon met Sidney Crosby they were at the airport. MacKinnon was going to Florida with his family; Crosby was coming back from the school he played at in Minnesota. Crosby was 15, already famous; MacKinnon was seven or eight. He knew who Crosby was, but it was his dad who recognized him. MacKinnon still has the picture: Sidney, Nathan, and Nathan’s sister, Sarah. They were all kids. Today MacKinnon, of Cole Harbour, N.S., could be two...

When Alex Ovechkin got off to a slow start and Sidney Crosby looked to be back to pre-injury form, for a while it seemed like the MVP debate was over.

FILE In this May 17, 2013, file photo, Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby (87) prepares to take a face off in the second period of Game 2 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup second-round playoff series against the Ottawa Senators in Pittsburgh. Crosby won the Ted Lindsay Award on Saturday, June 15, 2013, given to the league's most outstanding player as voted by fellow members of the NHL Players' Association. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

FILE In this May 17, 2013, file photo, Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby (87) prepares to take a face off in the second period of Game 2 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup second-round playoff series against the Ottawa Senators in Pittsburgh. Crosby won the Ted Lindsay Award on Saturday, June 15, 2013, given to the league's most outstanding player as voted by fellow members of the NHL Players' Association. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Sidney Crosby is the recipient of the 2012-13 Ted Lindsay Award— NHL on TSN (@NHLonTSN) June 15, 2013 Zero surprises there. Sidney Crosby truly was the most outstanding player this season, racking up 56 points in 36 games. A few people are probably peeved about Alex Ovechkin edging out Crosby in a close race for the Hart. We can argue about Ovechkin being mediocre for the first half of the season, among other technicalities, and they're all valid reasons. But Crosby summed it up nicely. #TribHKY Crosby: "Will be (judged) by championships. Winning always defines players." #pens— Rob Ros...

Penguins captain Sidney Crosby (above) won the Ted Linsday Award tonight. The honor goes to be the most oustanding player as voted on by members of the National Hockey League Players Association. It is the second time Crosby has won the award. He previously won it in 2007 when it was known as the Lester B. Pearson Award. Crosby did not sweep the awards however. Captain/forward Alex Ovechkin of the rival Capitals claimed the Hart Memorial Trophy which goes"to the player adjudged to be the most valuable to his team" as selected by the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association. The voting breakdo...

Bloggers and tweeters all over the hockey world were incredibly excited to see rumors circulating about the Penguins and their future salary cap structure, especially in regards to phenomenal center Evgeni Malkin, who was due to hit unrestricted free agency in two years. The market was seemingly set, with teams willing to pay Malkin much more than the Penguins are paying Sidney Crosby. Not sure why everyone assumed the Penguins would never go over that $8.7 million per year mark, out of respect for Crosby and his assumed desire to be the highest paid Penguin... but that's a moot point ...