Pittsburgh Penguins superstar Sidney Crosby should only consider signing with a KHL team if he makes the choice to play in an overseas league while the NHL lockout is ongoing.
According to Dave Molinari of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, we might not have to wait much longer to find out if Crosby will play overseas this year.
Agent Pat Brisson confirms Sidney Crosby “is at a point of making a decision” about whether to play in Europe because of the NHL lockout.
— Dave Molinari (@MolinariPG) November 27, 2012
There would be no better way for Crosby to "get back at" the owners for not doing enough to end the lockout than by signing with a team in the NHL's rival league.
Crosby signing with a KHL team would likely make NHL commissioner Gary Bettman furious because the KHL would then become the only place to watch the face of the NHL. Any Crosby versus Alexander Ovechkin games in the KHL would be huge events and would shift the focus of the hockey world on the KHL for a few days.
It's hard to determine what kind of impact Crosby going to the KHL would have on the CBA talks between the NHL and NHLPA, but ...
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