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To begin with, I do not know how or when he acquired the name Sidney Crosby. According to his fosterer with Toronto Cat Rescue¹, he was originally named “Buster”. He was apparently surrendered by his former owners and needed a lifesaving perineal urethrostomy to treat a severe urinary blockage.² In Judaism, there is a tradition of changing a gravely ill person’s name in order to change their fate; I like to think there is perhaps a symbolic connection. (Then again, traditionally we do not name people after someone who is still living.) Anyway, Sidney Crosby he now is. Continue reading Introducing Sidney Crosby