Council to debate renaming street in Sidney Crosby’s honour

Halifax regional council will debate renaming a street in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia after Sidney Crosby.

Councillor Lorelei Nicoll added the motion to council’s Tuesday agenda. She is asking councillors to call for a staff report that will look at changing the name of Forest Hills Parkway to Sidney Crosby Parkway. The move would require councillors to side-step the current rules which, in part, say that a person has to be retired to have an application considered.

“The policy says that a person should be either have passed on or at the end of their life legacy and that would require an exemption from council,” Lorelei Nicoll, Councillor for Cole Harbour Westphal said.

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Hockey Nova Scotia is the latest group to add their voice to the growing campaign to put Crosby’s name on a street sign. The group wants council to act now rather when Crosby retires because it says now is when his name has the most impact on kids.

“We’d like to recognize him now while he’s there and kids recognize (the street name) and can look at it as a role model,” Darren Cossar, executive director of Hockey Nova Scotia said.

Hockey Nova Scotia’s petition to change the street name has almost 400 signatures online.

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Crosby has two Stanley Cups and two Olympic gold medals under his belt along with countless other national and international awards and trophies.

The push to rename Forest Hills Parkways in Crosby’s honour was started by one of Crosby’s former coaches in Nova Scotia.

Nicoll says she hopes if the renaming goes ahead that the history of Forest Hills Parkway can also be maintained.