Canadian Hockey Star Sidney Crosby's Missing Gear Shows Up

You're Sidney Crosby. You scored the winning goal for the Canadian team to beat the United States and win the gold in one of the most dramatic hockey games in Olympic history. And how are you rewarded? By having your stick and glove stolen — or so you thought. As it turns out, Crosby's gear was instead misplaced.

Sports Illustrated reported that, according to Hockey Canada, Crosby's stick turned up in Toronto. It was heading to the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in Russia. The federation helped locate the stick that helped break the 2-2 tie in overtime, even providing photos to Crosby to get confirmation it was, in fact, the stick in question. And the gloves? One of them was put into the bag of teammate Patrice Bergeron, who was in the next locker over from Crosby. All the gear is being returned to, we're sure, a relieved Crosby.

Oddly enough, this isn't the first time Crosby's gear has gone missing. Back in 2005, after the world junior hockey championship in North Dakota, where Crosby's Canada won the gold over Russia, he couldn't find his jersey. It showed up in, of all places, "a mailbox outside a post office in Lachute, Quebec." Um, OK.

So not only was it a good day for Sidney Crosby, but also his foundation. Crosby announced that the $20,000 bonus he got from the Canadian Olympic Committee for winning the gold medal will go to his foundation. According to the Canadian Press, the Sidney Crosby Foundation, launched in Nova Scotia in 2009, "provides financial support to local children's charities in the Cole Harbour native's home province."

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