Sidney Crosby’s superstitions have no boundaries!

Rick Tocchet won the Stanley Cup in back to back years with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2016 and 2017. We get that he won’t dare to complain about captain Sidney Crosby’s odd ways that play some part in why he is so good.

Tocchet was a guest on the popular podcast by the Spittin Chiclets and revealed that while he was assistant coach for three years in Pittsburgh, Crosby’s superstitions got him involved in an hilarious way.

As he coached with a new suit on, it seems like Crosby had noticed it and was not pleased with the fact that the Penguins were 0-2 as Tocchet wore it.

He therefore asked his coach to change the suit, since it seemed to bring on bad luck. Tocchet didn’t waste a second telling him he would change the suit!

There are no boundaries to Crosby’s superstitions, clearly!

This past summer, Crosby was crowned the league’s most superstitious player as the NHPA announced the results of its player poll. The announcement had prompted Bardown to share a list of his well-known superstitions. Not all of them are made public, as Sid once said himself, he is superstitious when talking about his superstitions…

Oh boy. Here is the list:
- He eats the same peanut butter sandwich (with the same brands of each) at 5:00 PM before every game
- He keeps his sticks at his own stall instead of with the rest of the team’s
- He walks around one specific garbage can in the dressing room before they go out onto the ice
- He’s been wearing the same jockstrap since high school
- He stick handles through the golden McDonald’s arches on the ice before every game
- He can’t touch the soccer ball before the warm up game of keep up
- He tapes and retapes his sticks every period
- No one can touch his stick once he’s taped it
- He never passes the visitor’s locker room on his way into an arena
- A sequence of specific stretches
- A special handshake with Malkin before games
- Leaving the ice second last (Malkin goes last)
- His gear has to be laid out a certain way
- He doesn’t talk to his mom or sister on game day because he gets injured when he does
- His sticks can’t go next to the goalie sticks on the road
- He wears the same hat for a whole season (without washing it)

Better add to it an unlucky coach’s suit!