Sidney Crosby is said to have practised throwing pucks into a dryer as a youngster (Image Source: Imagn)
Sidney Crosby has spent most of his hockey career in the limelight. Right from a young age, the media have documented his journey into one of the best hockey players of all time. Thus, it is understandable that in order to hype up his talent, there have been a few exaggerated stories about the Penguins legend.
The most famous of these stories is how Sidney Crosby used to practice throwing pucks into a dryer. Once the story started circulating, everyone hopped onto the bandwagon and it grew into an urban legend,
Crosby, during an appearance at the Jay Leno Show in 2005, said that he used to throw pucks inside the dryer. But as per him, in numerous interviews later, the actual truth of it is slightly different. He used to shoot pucks in his basement but there was a net set up for him. All those pucks that didn't go in, used to hit his mom's dryer and thus the dents and marks left on them.
