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Roenick rips Crosby's work ethic before OT winner

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Again he's wrong in his analysis.

Former NHL forward and current NBCSN analyst Jeremy Roenick provided a scalding hot take Monday night in the second intermission of Game 2 between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Tampa Bay Lightning.

Roenick suggested Sidney Crosby - who hadn't scored in eight games - could learn about work ethic by watching Jonathan Drouin, the 21-year-old Lightning forward who requested a trade and was suspended by his team earlier this season for failing report to an AHL game.

Twenty minutes and 40 seconds of game time later, Crosby scored the overtime winner to knot the Eastern Conference finals at one game apiece.

Even before Monday's winner, the Hart Trophy finalist (and 2014 recipient) was producing at close to a point-per-game pace in the playoffs, and he's now tied for sixth in postseason points.

Roenick's comment is even more amusing when mashed up with the goal.

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