Bucci is brilliant, plain and simple. With this post defending Sidney Crosby to the millions of hockey haters out there, he has just surpassed the great Barry Melrose in my book. People wrote in to him saying that it ‘ruined’ the Olympic experience to have Sidney Crosby score the game winner. Someone even said that Canada would have still won the Gold without Crosby. Bucci’s response was so spot on, it’s crazy. Give this man Bettman’s job and call it a day.

“I watch parts of just about every NHL game. I don’t watch “Lost” or “Dancing with the Stars” or “Idol.” I watch NHL hockey every night I’m home. These are my observations:

1. Crosby rarely whines. In fact, he is one of the more subdued players in the NHL. That is a fact. If you believe otherwise, you haven’t seen a large sample of his games this season.

2. To call him overrated is as implausibly mind-boggling as calling Lady Gaga underrated. He wins faceoffs, he scores goals, he is the best passer in the NHL, he backchecks, he’s completely committed to his craft, he carries his franchise’s media load and has since he was 18. No one has had more asked of him over the past five years than Crosby.

3. Crosby has a scoring title, an MVP award, a Stanley Cup and an overtime gold medal-winning goal. He’s 22. He’s good. Try to enjoy him like the NBA fans who aren’t Cavaliers fans enjoy LeBron James and baseball fans who aren’t Cardinals fans enjoy Albert Pujols.

I have a difficult time detesting anything in life except Michael Bolton covering Otis Redding songs. That’s it.

I agree, agree, agree, agree, agree.