When you make more than $10 million a year, giving away $20k to sick children and having the announcement of it syndicated to more than 365 news outlets is hardly what I call real philanthropy or relative munificence. Like when he bought children equipment "valued at $40k" he left a blazing 87 behind as a reminder. For those of you who are being fooled what "valued at" actually means is they took the highest retail value of it to inflate his tax donation receipt but he bought it in bulk if he paid for it at all. Now given the amount of publicity he has received for that donation any good marketer will tell you it was "promotion on the cheap". Try to get 365 news outlets to advertise you and see what it costs.
As for Sidney Crosby always behaving himself in public, that is also a big fat lie. Even players who have been on his team will tell you that there is a massive publicist machine that includes Internet shills and black hat SEOs and burly, blustering body guards protecting his image. I for one don't buy that image anymore as I now know differently.
In 3 years he makes two visits to his local children's hospital and he is a hero? Nice people with a lot less resources do a whole lot more for others in a week. Lets not blow this out of proportion people.

Hes a good kid. Kudos

He's a good east coast kid. People from that area appreciate the efforts at the IWK.Helps a lot of kids with amazing stories.

Good on ya Crosby! I have had a family member in the IWK some time ago, thankfully no longer!
The kids will enjoy the expansion!