Sid Sulking, Perhaps in a Sling

Last night's game wasn't in the books an hour before I had an inbox teeming with unseemly gloating by fans of the good guys, many of them jubilant not only over the Caps' victory in Pittsburgh but the prospect of a badly injured Sidney Crosby. To state the obvious, that's very poor form.I can find no virtue in baseless, armchair diagnoses the product of very wrongly channeled fan enthusiasm -- how could any television viewer, even one with legitimate medical credentials, discern some degree of shoulder separation suffered by the Penguins' captain? We don't even know it's a shoulder . . . although early reports suggesting an injured leg fairly suggest it. I understand fully Caps fans' frustration with the NHL's rushed and myopic marketing fixation on the Nova Scotian, from the very moment of his drafting, and additionally his extensive apprentice as a trained diver and loudmouth whiner during his rookie season, but really we ought to celebrate terr...