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As we all know, Sidney Crosby scored the winning goal in Vancouver. Permanently etched in my mind, as it is for so many other Canadians, is the image of Crosby crouched down, looking almost in disbelief as he waited for his teammates to pile on top of him. It was as if for the first time in his life, Sid the Kid’s remarkable physical gifts had failed him and he just sat there, overcome with the moment. That image is now on par with the grainy black and white pictures of Paul Henderson’s goal in Moscow in 1972 and Mario Lemieux’s in Hamilton in 1987.

Imagine if the Leafs ever win the Stanley Cup in a similar manner. What kind of iconic image of the goal scorer will live on? And who will that goal scorer be? As unbelievable as it sounds, he could be playing on the Leafs right now. Or he could be a little boy who goes to bed every night in some place like Peterborough, or Penticton, or Pardubice dreaming of doing it.

If it ever happens, there will be a lot of people, both alive and no longer with us, who can rest in peace.