JD POV: Sid's vision.

With the 4 Nations Face-Off in full swing, Jason Demers offers his breakdown of Sidney Crosby's performance in Team Canada's tournament-opening win.

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Cannon was dominating early in the first period. I think
the Bell Center really carried them, Like I think the
fans were just next level, and that's how good Montreal
Canadians fans are and fans within the Montreal area. And
I think Sweden was just a little kind of hesitant.
They were a little bit scared, and you know, too,
nothing lead early. And then Sweden, who I think is
a dark horse in the tournament for me, I think

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they've the best decoor in the tournament, a lot of
NHL experience. They started to kind of implement their game,
and I mean they held Canada like twenty twenty two shots,
which is which is insane with the amount of skill
you have on that team. And you know again it was,
but it was the Sidney Crosby show. Like this guy
is is every every time we think, oh he might
be getting a little old, you know, he comes out

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and he plays fantastic game. He uses his brain. I
broke down the three goals that he was involved in
directly him using his vision. I mean, there's every every
single clip of the goal, and I'd love and edit
here if we put these clips here. But before every
goal he's he takes a look and scans the ice
and then that's where he ends up going with the pucks.

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So on the mckinning goal, he he looks s, hees
where mckinnony is, makes that little spin around my backhand.
Then when he goes to mark Stone, he literally looks
behind him says, okay, mark Stone's coming late. I can
drive deep, turn up, hit Mark Stone. He does it,
and then in overtime he's looking where guys are coming
off from the bench and he's looking back behind him
where Mitch Martin goes into the zone, drops it back.

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Nobody really does that and then gets out of the
zone leads to the Mitch Marner goal. He's just He's incredible.
He is Captain Canada. And the crazy stat that I
want to really drive home here and drill home before
I let you get back on this is in international games, Sidney.
When Sidney Crosby is playing consecutively, he is twenty six

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straight wins in his last twenty six international games. He's
twenty six and zero. That is such an astronomical number.
When he is on team Canada, they have not lost
in twenty six games.

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