how about this for 3 degrees of separation….Xavi (my lad) plays in the Peewees – I have a Canadian friend who has just moved to Dunedin to live and she mentioned that she knew Darryl Wolski, (he is the President of ProActive Sports and Concert group and is a NHL agent and best known for the Promotion of his Battle of the enforcers thing…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl_Wolski)
Darryl also has visited NZ and our rink and is doing some marketing work for Auckland hockey too. He has a client named Jonathon Fiewich who plays for the Pittsburgh Penguins (and this guy was called up when Crosby was put on the injured reserve list awhile ago – a bit like being a sub for Jonah Lomu). Darci picks up the story……

[i:3jeo4nt1]Jonathon is known as Filly and he was happy to be able to help a little Dunedin Peewee get his request for a signed photo of Mr Crosby plus
last years jersey with a few signatures on it.

Filly  hand delivered the photograph to Crosby in the Penguins dressing room and asked him to sign it. This way it would for sure get done as Sidney gets over 200 autograph requests per day!!  Crosby was surprised to hear it was for a young player in New Zealand but thought it was pretty cool.[/i:3jeo4nt1]

so if you see a little guy with a big grin around the Dun rink you know who it is. I’ve hopefully attached a photo to check it out -Thanks to Darci + Daryl