{"id":288643,"date":"2025-11-16T16:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/288643\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T16:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:55:07","slug":"penguins-share-throwback-photo-of-crosby-at-2008-global-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/288643\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins share throwback photo of Crosby at 2008 Global Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/sidney-crosby-8471675\" title=\"Sidney Crosby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sidney Crosby<\/a> played in the NHL Global Series in Sweden, &#8220;The Dark Knight&#8221; was burning up the box office.<\/p>\n<p>The year was 2008. The No. 1 song was &#8220;Low&#8221; by FloRida and T-Pain. &#8220;Iron Man&#8221; was about to launch the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Instagram, Pintrest, WhatsApp, Snapchat and TikTok didn&#8217;t even exist yet.<\/p>\n<p>The team shared a photo of Crosby from the 2008 event and this year&#8217;s game and the changes are subtle but the similarities &#8211; namely Crosby being one of the NHL&#8217;s elite players &#8211; are exact.<\/p>\n<p>Crosby was 21 years old last time he played the NHL Global Series. At the time he had 99 career goals, and an astonishing 294 points in 213 NHL games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last time Sidney Crosby played in the NHL Global Series in Sweden, &#8220;The Dark Knight&#8221; was burning up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-288643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}