They dominated as linemates at the 2005 World Juniors in Grand Forks.
They dominated as linemates at the 2006 World Championships in Riga.
And now in 2010 Winter Olympics Hockey, Patrice Bergeron and Sidney Crosby re-unite to chase Gold for Canada. Sidney is an other worldly talent; he's in a class all by himself. Yet the host nation's roster is deep with other worldclass natural pivotmen: Thornton, E. Staal, M. Richards, and Toews. And the world is now learning what we in Boston have known all along...
Patrice Bergeron BELONGS in that select group.
Throw out any cliche you want. Boston's young center plays 'both ends of the ice', '60 minutes', 'all three zones', 'goes all out' all the time. All of the above. Over the course of Vancouver's Winter Games, hockey fans across the world will come to recognize that #37 belongs in the conversation with contemporaries Jordan Staal and Pavel Datsyuk for the superlative "best all-around center in the game". With any luck, the NHL will honor Bergeron's efforts with a deserved Selke Trophy award nomination, justly putting him in a class of such legendary 2-way greats as Ron Francis, Bob Gainey, Guy Carbonneau, and Bobby Clarke.
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