Sidney Crosby plays with greater expectations.

Publication: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)

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COPYRIGHT 2005 South Florida Sun-Sentinal

Byline: Steve Gorten

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ "Oh my God! It's Sidney Crosby!"

Someone screamed that out of a bus window. The bus squealed to a stop. And a dozen teenage girls _ students from Quebec _ barreled out, dashing after their teenage hockey hero down a street in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Crosby, who had been walking back from lunch, sprinted around the corner with his personal trainer, Andy O'Brien. They jumped in the car and bolted.

That was last summer. Crosby seemed stunned by fans' reaction then, O'Brien said, recalling the story. And he probably would be even now, a quarter of the way through a rookie NHL season in which the 18-year-old Penguins center...

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