2009 Stanley Cup Final: Handshakes

The Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins line up and shake hands at the end of Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final.

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[pens90]

dude you have NO room to speak about crosby. he just won the cup. he torched your caps. and he won the one on one battle against ovy in the playoffs. NO ROOM son. sit down.

[captaincanuck7]

and you are such a stereotypical asshole.

lay off canada, dude.

[TheeUrbanGentleman]

LOL. Stupid Draper.

Crosby is a mawfucken Champ!

He's won pretty much every major award in his career.

"Veterans" have no room to talk shit about class.

Show class and be patient. The Champ is cellying.

[SuperHenderson13]

notice how kris draper was the one that bitched the most about crosby not shaking hands, but notice how he was the first one to leave the handshake line...

[dhelm431]

@pandala420 I'm pretty sure Draper has three more cups and 10 times the class, actually. the point is that as a leader he failed quite exceedingly. I guarantee a real captain like lidstrom, lecavalier, drury, etc would never have done that, no matter how thrilled they were. and i'd include ovi on that list, too, though i like him about as much as "the cros"

[1darius85]

@MPDLR also bettman can give him the cup every year

[LOKISlog7]

@MPDLR STANLEY CUP CHAMPION, OLYMPIC HERO, CANADIAN HOCKEY LEGEND and the only player that the Greatest Hockey Player Ever; Gretzky said would break his NHL records.

nuff said..........................­...............

[luciferfromhell]

@thecolourblue100 he got caught up by staff + tv interviews

[thecolourblue100]

Here's the thing Captains don't always lead the handshake lines (we saw that last year with Jonathan Toews) usually a guy from the 4th line or a D man will just randomly start the Handshake line and anyone around will jump right into the line. However even though Toews never lead the line; he was like the 3rd or 4th person which is more than ok, Crosby on the other hand didn't even show up until the arena started booing...if that's not disrespect than I don't know what is...

[MPDLR]

Crosby is a great talent.

Crosby won a cup.

Crosby will never ever have a legacy.

Ever.

He's just a kid who is a good hockey player.

But not a Man.

20 cups won't change that.

There's players who have never won a Cup, that'll be remembered way more than Crosby ever will be.

Luckily, the fluke was the fluke. Crosby played golf during the stanley cup playoffs of 2010

[PruePeyton2]

I'm not a Crosby hater or anything like that. On the contrary, I think he's very talented. However, I can't deny a sense of disappointment when he didn't lead his team in the handshake. Of course he's overcome with a distraction of joy, he won the Stanley Cup! But, the handshake is a ritual; represents sportsmanship. You gotta say "good game" to the other players. After all they were contenders too. Bad mistake on Sid's part.

[markpag1117]

yeah you tell him. youre not supposed to build a team around draft picks!!! christ what are the pens thinking!!!