BOSTON — When Drew Doughty got his first taste of best-on-best hockey, he was the youngest member of Team Canada at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, and things didn’t start so well for him.
Naturally, it was a conversation with one of the “veterans” that helped him reverse course and turn the event into a career-shifting experience.
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Never mind that the player was just two years, four months and one day older than Doughty. It was the type of player who was born a veteran.
It was Sidney Crosby.
“He was young,” Doughty recalls, “but I remember after one of our first practices I was walking onto the bus and he was like, ‘Hey,
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