This is from today’s Penguins Q&A with Dave Molinari. I think this was asked last season too?

Question: Wouldn’t it be better to trade Sidney Crosby now for a couple of prospects and get some quality picks for him while he’s so overrated before the rest of the hockey world realizes he’s a bust?

George, Carbondale, Pa.

MOLINARI: Absolutely.

If Ray Shero is half the general manager some of us believe him to be, he ought to be working feverishly to foist Crosby off on some unsuspecting rival. With luck, maybe he’ll even manage to steal a couple of conditional fifth-round draft choices in the deal.

Clearly, for a guy who’s already reached the advanced age of 22, Crosby really has accomplished very little at this level. Once you get beyond that league scoring championship and MVP award he’s won, along with that minor footnote about being the youngest captain ever to lead a team to a Stanley Cup, what has the guy achieved?

It’s a pretty skimpy resume, to be sure. Makes you wonder why, in a poll of general managers conducted by TSN, the Canadian TV network, last season, Crosby was their choice as the player around whom they would want to build a franchise. Then again, what would GMs know about a hockey player’s talent and value?

Seriously, if people want to debate whether Crosby or Malkin (or Alex Ovechkin or Henrik Zetterberg or whoever) is the better player, that’s fine. Anyone outside of Crosby’s immediate family who believes he is a no-brainer choice for that distinction simply isn’t giving the other world-class talents in the NHL the respect they deserve.

But to characterize Crosby as a bust is beyond asinine, and gives the concept of being clueless a bad name.

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