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Chicago, IL Skyline

My name is Johnny Aleksandrs Blaus and I was born on November 23, 1990 at Lutheran General hospital in Park Ridge, IL.  I am currently twenty-one years old and from the city of Chicago, Illinois.  Right now I am a freshmen at Nichols College in Dudley, Massachusetts and I am undecided on my major at the moment.  I play on the Nichols College men's ice hockey team and wear the number 10.  My hobbies include hanging out with all the guys on the team and buddies from back home in Chicago.  Also during the ice hockey off-season I play professional inline hockey with a few of my friends at home.  I hope to learn new tasks on different applications on my computer and online.  Also I hope to improve my writing skills in these blogs so I can get a higher grader in my writing courses that I am currently taking.

Sidney Crosby

Sidney Crosby is arguably the best player to ever play hockey in the NHL.  Holding all kinds of records in points, assists, goals.   He currently plays on the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Eastern Conference.  That's was until last year wear he was diagnosed with a severe concussion.  Crosby has recently, earlier this year, returned to line-up where everything seemed to be back to normal in his playing notching 12 points in only 8 games of being back on the roster.  Of course until that as of late, were Crosby was hit and re-injured and diagnosed once again with concussion-like symptoms and a soft-tissue injury.  In this article of recent news the penguins talk of his return this year.  http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=614561&navid=DL|NHL|home

Doctors are currently working with Crosby off the ice everyday to help speed up his recovery as fast as possible.  Crosby said this about how he been coping with the whole ordeal, "From what I've been told, this is something pretty commonly linked with concussion symptoms, and in a way that's encouraging. There's no magic to get rid of it but, if this is contributing, this is something we can obviously treat and work on and hopefully it will go away."As for how the entire team is reacting on the subject, they remain hopeful on their captains return so the penguins can make another run at Lord Stanley's Cup.  According to Crosby he is anxious to get back in the swing of being in full season mode going into the second half the NHL's regular season and he excited about the future of the team.  In the article on Tuesday Crosby said, "I just want to get back out there, and I am trying to do everything I can to do that."  The team has been doing well without there superstar center but definitely could use him if they hope to make it deep into the playoffs this year.  NHL Megastar -Crosby won the NHL MVP award, a scoring title, the Stanley Cup and an Olympic gold medal by age 22 -- said he "still isn't where I want to be" and, even with an updated diagnosis, his return to the Penguins' lineup is not imminent.  Crosby definitely is not content with his diagnosis and wants to return but needs to wait until he fully recovered in order to avoid any more injury this season.  This article really interested me because I love hockey and I really want Crosby to return to the line-up so I have been following up with his injury a lot.