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Sidney Crosby On Henrik Zetterberg

09/17/2018 at 8:39am EDT

via Jason Mackey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,

Sidney Crosby knows Henrik Zetterberg well.

Really well, if you remember the 2008 Stanley Cup final. Pretty much every time Crosby hopped onto the ice, there came Zetterberg, looking to shut down the Penguins captain.

Zetterberg himself shut it down recently, announcing his retirement this past week due to a degenerative back condition.

Crosby and Zetterberg did battle on the ice many times, never more heated than in the 2008 and 2009 Cup finals, but Crosby always had a healthy respect for the Red Wings captain and shared his thoughts Sunday on Zetterberg walking away from the NHL.

“It’s too bad,” Crosby said after Day 3 of Penguins training camp at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex. “He’s a great player. He’s been good for a really long time. You think of the Red Wings, he’s a guy who comes to mind. [Nicklas] Lidstrom, [Pavel] Datsyuk, Zetterberg, all those guys who played for so long together.

“[Zetterberg] had an amazing career. He was a tough guy to go against every single night. You knew what you were going to get from him. Just a great competitor.”

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