NHL Network ranks Penguins' Sidney Crosby as league's second-best center
Sidney Crosby is the second-best center in hockey for the third straight year, according to a list compiled by the NHL Network.
Crosby checked in behind Edmonton’s Connor McDavid on the show “Top 20 Centers Right Now,” which premiered Sunday night.
Penguins teammate Evgeni Malkin was ranked 13th. Colorado’s Nathan MacKinnon, Florida’s Aleksander Barkov and Toronto’s John Tavares rounded out the top five.
“On the power play, he is as good as there is in the NHL,” NHL Network analyst Mike Johnson said. “The part where he’s really evolved his game in the last few years is he’s gotten better in his own end. He bears down a little bit more, he makes good plays, more defensibly reliable.”
Jonathan Bombulie is the TribLive assistant sports editor. A Greensburg native, he was a hockey reporter for two decades, covering the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins for 17 seasons before joining the Trib in 2015 and covering the Penguins for four seasons, including Stanley Cup championships in 2016-17. He can be reached at jbombulie@triblive.com.
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