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CP: I got a chance to sit down with Sidney Crosby and ask him lots of questions.CP: How long have you been playing hockey? What age did you start?

SC: I think 3-years-old, I started skating. Everyone kind of pretty much starts pretty young. It's a popular game, so I was about 3-years-old.

CP: His dad was also a hockey player. He was a goalie with Montreal. He never made it to the big leagues, but he passed his genes and his passion for hockey to his young son.

SC: I had to work towards getting here and I don't think there's ever a certain age that I realized I'm gonna play in the NHL. But I knew that, you know, if I worked hard I might have a better opportunity than other people and I was going to try to get there. So many kids grow up skating, and I just started early and I fell in love with the game.

CP: And it showed. Look at these pictures of Sid as a kid. He always played against older kids and he always was better than them because he practiced all the time, even in his basement.

[Footage of a younger Sidney: When we moved in, we thought this would be a great idea for a hockey rink, so ever since then I've been shooting down here. They all don't seem to hit the net like that though. As you can see this dryer has taken a beating over the last few years. Luckily my parents don't mind.]

CP: He also had to move away from home when he was 14. He played in Minnesota and Quebec. He also had to learn a new language.

[Footage of Sidney in the classroom getting called on his teacher, speaking in French.]

SC: I picked it up pretty fast and I really put in an effort to learn it. Now that those two years have gone by, I feel fortunate to have it. I feel pretty comfortable using it now.

CP: And how do you like living with Mario Lemieux?

SC: It's been great for me. He's played 20 years in the NHL and he's a guy that I can learn from. He's been through a lot. A lot of similar situations that I've been through, so I think it's good to have him kind of showing me along and I've learned a lot from him so far.