What Crosby works on as a veteran
Crosby has been in the National Hockey League (NHL) since 2005, and is about as close to a sure-fire Hockey Hall of Famer as you can get.
He has also won two Olympic golds in 2010 and 2014, and is in search of a third in 2026. However, when he thinks about the Team Canada jersey in which he has had many big moments on the ice, his fondest memories come from childhood.
“I always think of World Juniors, just because when I was a kid that was my first kind of attachment to Team Canada. It was just being a young kid and just wanting to know when Canada played over the holidays.
“Sometimes we’d have to wake up pretty early in the morning depending on where the tournament was and it was a pretty fun time around the holidays so I think I always attach my first memories with World Juniors.”
Now 38, Crosby says his approach to maintaining himself has changed over the years.
“As far as practice goes, I think that I probably tried to scale it back a little bit as I got older [in terms of] when there was opportunities in the schedule to stay on [the ice] longer and push yourself. I didn’t want to try to get too much work in and be tired with a heavier schedule as I got older.
“But as far as the approach mentally, I think you’re just always trying to learn. No matter how old you are, I think that’s the biggest thing – from year to year, the challenges and whether you go through that changes.
“So just being able to adapt, I think that’s a big thing.”
