Dressing room Quote by Shawna Richer

“The thing I noticed immediately about Crosby the first time I saw him in the Penguins’ dressing room that September was his thighs. They were the circumference of good-sized tree trunks.” quote by Shawna Richer — Download Open image

““The thing I noticed immediately about Crosby the first time I saw him in the Penguins’ dressing room that September was his thighs. They were the circumference of good-sized tree trunks.””

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