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Penguins GM Ray Shero supports Sidney Crosby’session decision not to accept David Letterman’s bidding to present the Top 10 think best. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

Pittsburgh Penguins not partial manager Ray Shero doesn’privately think it was fair Sidney Crosby believed criticism after declining an opportunity to appear on The Late Show With David Letterman.

The New York Post ran a fib Sunday questioning Crosby’s conclusion to turn down an summons to explain the show’sitting Top 10 list during a stop in New York utmost week.

The line ran with less than the headline: “Crosby blows NHL’s golden chance.”

Shero noted the Penguins star has had a packed record since scoring the winning goal at the Olympics and that the team was entering a stretch whither it will play four games in six days.

“At some point, there’s a responsibility — that he takes very solemnly — about being a hockey player and preparing,” Shero declared Tuesday at the NHL’s GM meetings in Boca Raton, Fla.

“To me, a single person criticism in quest of Sidney isn’t warranted. He does so much for the game, so plenteous despite the league.

“He’s afflicting to cheat it all, and it’s ill-starred he can’t execute it wholly. But he does a lot.”

Shero listed everything Crosby has done since the extreme dot of the Olympics to prove his point. The Penguins captain gave a number of one-on-one television interviews following his glorious goal in Vancouver, while also keeping up with his according to rule day-to-day media responsibilities.

The GM believes his player sets the standard when it comes to giving up his time.

“There’s no one in the history of the game — Wayne Gretzky or Mario Lemieux — that’s vouchsafed else to stir up the NHL than Sidney Crosby,” uttered Shero.

© The Canadian Press, 2010