............. it's time for another Sidney Crosby insider.

I was at a friend's Christmas party earlier tonight and bumped into one of her co-workers who I know well, named Harry Forbes, whose sister just happens to be Trina Crosby, Sidney's mother.  (Got that so far?)  I asked Harry how often he saw Sidney these days.  The answer was "he's too busy for us nowadays".  He was  saying it without bitterness, for he stated that the extended family was close, but Sidney was just so incredibly busy with his career - especially off the ice.  He related how Sidney was in Moncton, NB, to write his high school exams, and after two days he checked his cell phone and wrote down two full foolscaps of phone numbers from the messages he had.  This was at the time a 17 year old kid!  It's even worse now, of course.

Oh, would that he were a Hab!