from John Steigerwald of the Indiana Gazette,

Maybe Sidney Crosby should just quit.

It’s not like it hasn’t happened before. He shared a home with the former Best Player in the World, who quit when he was 31 years old.

Yep. That’s what Mario Lemieux did after the 1996-97 season, and when he did it, everybody understood. They knew he was fed up with the stupidity of the NHL. If you were around back then, you remember that Lemieux made it known that he was going to retire after that season, so it wasn’t a shock when the guy who led the league in scoring with 50 goals and 72 assists decided to pack it in.

Think about that for a second. This wasn’t a broken-down player who was struggling to play up to the ridiculous standard that he had set for himself. This was a 50-goal scorer saying he’d had enough with the NHL’s refusal to enforce the rules and was walking away. Not to become a team executive or owner. That would come later. He was headed for the golf course and as far away as he could get from the game he loved.

That just doesn’t happen in sports.

The most talented player ever to pick up a hockey stick just couldn’t deal with the stupidity anymore.

Well, guess what? The stupidity is back. Big-time.

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