from Chris Johnston of Sportsnet,

“Quite a night?” Trina Crosby said as she followed her son, Sidney, off the ice at Bridgestone Arena. “Quite a couple years!”

This was a Stanley Cup that came in twos. Back-to-back championships for the Pittsburgh Penguins. A Conn Smythe Trophy for Crosby in back-to-back years.

A team, and its icon, further etching their place in history together.

“In Sid’s case, I think now we can talk about him being in those top two, three, four guys of all-time,” Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford said after Sunday’s tense 2-0 clinching victory over the Nashville Predators.

“He’s a special player. He’s a special person. … He’s in that group for me.”...

“You can’t match this,” said Crosby. “This is what it’s all about, and to be able to share that with a group of guys, and a lot of them guys that you’ve played a long time with and understand how difficult it is and what you’ve had to go through and that kind of thing, to share it with family and friends, you know, it’s just …

“That’s what it’s about.”

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