he is always the captain

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part 2 of halfway line

Will is so very proud of herself for continuing to jog steadily, for not letting the casual expression on her face falter, and for not turning and decking Mack square across the jaw.

Is it this one? I’ve always love this extract about him; it’s so fantastically true:

As a rule, Crosby does his interviews while sitting. Like all genuinely strong people, he prefers the weaker position. It’s hard to badger a guy from above.

We all cluster around his locker ready to be charmed by his presence. We know he won’t say anything interesting. Crosby is an interesting guy, but he has excised that part of himself for public consumption.

There’s no advantage for Crosby to be seen as edgy or slightly ahead of conventional thinking. Few players have ever so ruthlessly exploited advantages like Crosby does.

He’s asked about a couple of the day’s Hall of Fame inductees – Dominik Hasek and Peter Forsberg. Crosby has learned the experienced interviewee’s trick of repeating your question back to you as a statement. Hasek was “unbelievable.” Forsberg “loved to compete.” This doesn’t mean anything, but everyone nods like Crosby’s handing out stone tablets.

Someone brings up the slow fade of the enforcer – a topic with small potential for controversy. Crosby says, “That’s just the way the game’s evolved. Everyone adjusts accordingly. There’s definitely been some change. That’s just one of the many things that, with time, you see changes.”

You ask him about the disappearance of fighting, and Crosby tells you fighting is disappearing. It’s a hell of a trick.

sid is so extra that everyone always forgets geno has his fair share of superstitions lol

left skate must be sharpened first [x]

won’t change his blades if he’s playing well [x]

retapes his stick bewteen periods and must use dana’s scissors [x]

shoots a puck off chris stewart’s foot after warm-ups [x] [x] (I don’t know if he still does this but it was for at least a few years)

won’t change a broken stick when he’s just scored with it [x]

and let’s not forget: needs to go out last - so much so he forced SID, of all people, to break his routine! [x]

Edit (in order to keep everything in one post) - In addition:

always last to leave the ice after warm-ups

will always eat the same meal before games, listen to the same music and wear the same suit while the pens are on a win streak [x]

always eats the same meal after a playoff series win [x] (thanks to @emalkin71 for linking me to those two interviews)

also… who knows how many others are covered by this [x]:

How do you prepare for games, any sort of superstitions?

It’s all secret because I do this long time. Of course I do something, but it’s all secret.

also also… geno’s parents didn’t travel to detroit for the cup clincher in 2009, so they didn’t travel to san jose in 2016 (instead they met the pens off the plane with balloons!) or nashville in 2017 either