Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby is the best player in the National (Ice, not Roller or Field) Hockey League. He is a transcendent player. The play below, however, is NOT illustration of Crosby's transcendance. It is example of Buffalo's absolutely criminal indifference to defending. What you see in this gif is Crosby splitting TWO sets of two Buffalo "defenders," FOUR in all.

At the beginning of this gif you see Crosby skating toward center ice with nary a "Sword" in the picture. Then as he enters the center circle there is the first set of Buffalos who are in excellent position to apply a pincer movement and stop Crosby in this tracks. One Buffalo is blocked by a "Penguin," but the Buffalo at the top of the frame seems not to care, or to believe that his role and the other Buffalo's role when Sidney Crosby is coming through is to hold the door open for him. Crosby thanks them and exits with haste. Neither Buffalo seems to have touched Crosby. Doormen don't. Crosby then bears down on goal and two OTHER Buffalo's let him get through THEM, albeit with more effort to delay his progress than the first two doormen. BUT NOT ENOUGH effort! Crosby gets just a tad ahead of those last two and then, oh, that subtle, lethal, wrist shot truly is sublime, and he beats the goalie. Crosby just should not have ever gotten near the Buffalo goal to show his skeels around net. PA-THE-TIC "defending" by the Buffalos.

I add this as reason number #1,023 to the list of reasons why the undersigned could never be a coach in anything at any level. "Coach Harris, what do you think of your team's execution?" "My team's execution? Oh, I'm for it."