For those of you who didn’t get to see Ron MacLean interview Sidney Crosby on May 21, 2008 on CBC TV, I have included a transcript below of the entire, un-edited interview. You may love him, you may hate him, or you may remain nonplussed by him, but there is no denying that he is one of the most able and interesting players in the NHL today!

Ron MacLean: “First of all, congratulations on your big win over the Flyers.”
Sidney Crosby: “Thank you Ron. It’s always especially satisfying to beat Philadelphia.”
RM: "Secondly, what is that button on your lapel? I think it says, ‘NO, I’M NOT A MODEL’.
SC: “Well Ron, at first I was flattered when strangers kept coming up to me out of the blue and asking but, after the first hundred times or so, it became a bother. I wear this button to cut down on the questions. If someone still asks, I just point to the button.”
RM: “Interesting. That’s a smart idea.”
SC: “Very smart.”
RM: “Have you ever thought of modelling?”
SC: “I think about it all the time. I’d really love to be a model, but right now I make more money with hockey. If someone would pay me more to model, I’d drop hockey in a New York minute. My agent is working on getting me some modelling gigs for the off-season.”
RM: “Now, after a big game, how does Sidney Crosby like to relax?”
SC: “Well, after a home game, I just go back to my penthouse apartment in downtown Pittsburgh, put on an Air Supply or Dan Fogelberg CD, and get in the hot tub with a wine cooler. Air Supply is my favorite group.”
RM: “Speaking of music, I heard that you recently struck up a friendship with Clay Aiken.”
SC: “Yeah, we met at a Big Brothers of North America charity fundraiser last November. Clay loves hockey and he’s a big Hurricanes fan. I still haven’t told him that I voted for Ruben Studdard. Promise you won’t tell him Ron?”
RM: “I promise. How about the women in your life. Is there anyone you’re seeing right now?”
SC: “I’m actively dating but I haven’t found that special someone yet. I’m looking for a lady who will love me not just because I’m a rich hockey star. I want someone to love me for my looks as well!”
RM: “Do you think personality or common interests should matter?”
SC: “Maybe common interests. I broke up with my last girlfriend because she never wanted to do what I wanted. If I wanted us to go for a manicure and pedicure for example, she’d insist that we go to a tractor pulling event or ‘Monster Truck Show’ instead. I’d want to visit the Big Apple to take in some Broadway shows, but she’d want to go wild boar hunting in Tennessee. It just didn’t work out.”
RM: “Do you get lots of fan mail from women.”
SC: “Do I! I get an average of about sixty letters from female fans every week. Many include their photos. A few days ago, a woman in Shillington even sent me a pair of her undies.”
RM: “How are you preparing for the Stanley Cup finals against the Red Wings?”
SC: “One thing I’m doing is calling every NHL official I know, and some I don’t know, and making them promise me that they’ll do everything in their power to stop Red Wing fans from bringing Octopuses into Joe Louis Arena.”
RM: “Why?”
SC: “They gross me out, that’s why! ICK! I get the creeps just thinking about those things.”
RM: “Well anyway, we’re running out of time. I want to thank you very much and good luck against the Red Wings.”
SC: “Thank you Ron. It’s been my pleasure. Can I just say hello to everyone back in Nova Scotia?”
RM: “I think you just did.”

[This blog is a work of fiction. Names, characters, conversations, places, and incidents are either the product of the blogger’s imagination or are used fictitiously. That is, everything in this blog is a total fabrication, made up out of thin air – kind of like a Michael Moore “documentary”.]