Sidney+Crosby

=Sidney Crosby: A Hockey Story = =by Paul Arsenault =

**Overview:**

//Sidney Crosby: A Hockey Story//illustrates two themes. One, this book provides an interesting perspective to Sidney Crosby’s amateur hockey career, before he was drafted first over-all in the 2005 NHL entry draft by the Pittsburgh Penguins. This Sidney Crosby biography begins with the 2002 Air Canada Cup which the author states “Sidney Crosby used the 2002 Air Canada Cup, hosted in the city of Bathurst, New Brunswick, to explode onto the North American hockey scene. The tournament marked the beginning of a journey that would see him become the eventual Number One pick in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft…” and concludes with his junior club’s loss in the final game of the 2005 Memorial Cup. Secondly, //Sidney Crosby: A Hockey Story// provides a brief overview of the history of hockey in Canada’s Maritime provinces.