No. 244: SIDNEY CROSBY & CONOR BEDARD / The critics are doubting the latest generational player. Remembering when they buried No. 87 (& this humble biographer).

Yup, the first pick in the 2023 draft is slumping & the media's reflexive response is to deem him over-rated, all hype, a bust. You think scribes learn from past mistakes? Good luck with that.

“WHY don’t you write about Sidney Crosby?” a subscriber asked the other day.

This line of interrogation seemed to come out of leftfield—a strange question to ask a scribe who has written not one biography but two.