The NHL Girl

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While people love to hate on Sidney Crosby, it’s impossible to deny that The Kid is one of the top two-way players in the league; he back checks and works hard to recover the puck in his own deffensive end, and occasionally he makes a play between the pipes as well, like he did on Nov. 3 against Anaheim.

Crosby is typically thought of as a point-scoring guy, whether he is netting the points himself or whether he is setting them up, but the reason Crosby is arguably one of the best players in the world is because of his two-way game. OK, so it will never be his trademark, like it is with a guy like Jordan Staal, but two-way play is a facet of the game that Crosby undeniably possesses.