COLE HARBOUR, Nova Scotia — The staging area Saturday was the church parking lot where Sidney Crosby played street hockey as a kid.
The 1.1-mile parade route he traveled while standing in the back of a Ford F-150 truck with the Stanley Cup and Conn Smythe Trophy is one Crosby could probably drive in his sleep if he had to.
Take a right off of Colby Drive onto Cumberland Drive. Go up the hill and through the Cole Harbour Road intersection onto Forest Hills Parkway. Drive past the Sobeys, Shoppers Drug Mart, Tim Hortons and Canadian Tire on your left. Keep going until you get to Cole Harbour Place, the community’s dual-rink and multipurpose recreational facility where Crosby spent countless hours learning a craft that has allowed him to become the generational star he is today.
«That’s exactly how I came to the rink for every game or practice,» Crosby said.
While an estimated crowd of 30,000-plus, according to local police, lined the route from St. John XXIII Church to Cole Harbour Place, all to get a glimpse of the local hockey hero who for the second time brought the Stanley Cup to them, the Pittsburgh Penguins captain kept thinking about what the route meant to him as he went along it.
El estacionamiento de la iglesia donde Sidney Crosbyt jugaba Hocky de niño lo recibio hoy coo todo un héroe en su pueblo natal…un desfile de mas de una milla de largo encabezada por una ford-f-150 con la Stanley Cup, el trofeo Conn Smythe y Crosby, fue un sueño hecho realidad para el MVP de la Stanley Cup.
Cerca de 30 mil personas escoltaron al idolo del pueblo de Cole harbor en Nueva Escocia, el capitan de los Campeones de la Stanely Cup, los Pinguinos de Pittsburg, que el mismo Crosby, seguí sus palabras, nunca se llego a imaginar, tendria tal alcance.