Most people remember the call for Jarome Iginla to pass the puck, the moment when the young star put the puck in the net, and the jubilation that followed.

A country erupted when a 22-year-old Sidney Crosby scored the overtime winner at the Vancouver Olympics in 2010. Nearly 16 years later, Crosby remembers winning gold on home soil as one of the best moments in what has been a storied hockey career.

But Crosby also remembers the devastation he felt when the Canadians, who were less than 30 seconds away from a regulation win, yielded the tying goal to American forward Zach Parise. That feeling of being so close to what he dreamed about as a boy in Cole Harbour, N.S., and then having it disappear through his fingers like quicksand, will probably stay with him for the rest of his life.

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