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If somebody famous is coming to town, you can bet Dylan Atack will have the lowdown on their visit.

The Hamilton, Ont., man has met Queen Elizabeth, Prince Harry and the Belgian royal couple. He’s also a big sports fan so when he heard Sidney Crosby would be in Buffalo, Atack was keen to meet the Pittsburgh Penguins star from Cole Harbour.

“I’ve heard such great stories of such a great and humble guy he is,” he said in a phone interview Tuesday.

Atack, who has autism, said his father often drives him to his meetings with high-profile visitors so they hit the road last Friday for the hour-long drive to KeyBank Center in Buffalo.

“So we went down for the morning practice. We stood at the back of the arena and the team bus arrived and the colour commentator (for the Penguins) Phil Bourque . . . came on over and he signed my sign,” Atack said.

“And I told him my name was Dylan and he said oh my son’s name is Dylan! I said to him, you know, I’m hoping to get Sidney to come over and sign my poster. So he said I’ll tell him to go looking for you.”

After Atack and his dad Ritch waited for about two hours — luckily it was an unusually warm day for Buffalo in February — the Penguins players emerged from the arena and headed toward their bus.

“Sidney came right on over and he signed my poster,” which said Go Pens Go, said Atack, who works as a team assistant for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats football team and for the Hamilton Bulldogs of the Ontario Hockey League. “He said hi, the coach was telling me you’re out here waiting for me.

“I told him that I worked with the Hamilton Tiger Cats and ... he was really happy when I gave him a Tiger Cat hat. He goes, you know, Halifax might be getting a CFL team. ... He just made my day. He wrote on the poster ‘To Dylan, great to meet you,’ with a signature.

“I was just over the moon when he came on over. He was at the top of my bucket list to me,” said Atack, who has pinned a photo of the encounter to the top of his Twitter account.

I got to meet Sidney on friday after morning skate in buffalo , Phil bourque had told sidney that I was outside waiting for him , and sidney came right over to say hi , Sidney is a true MVP off the ice as well , he made my day for sure ! thank you sid ! @penguins pic.twitter.com/sOondO7h0a — Dylan (@ticatsfan7) March 3, 2019

While he enjoys getting up close and personal with famous people just for the fun of it, “I like to set an example for autism as well. Just to go out there and do your thing and show people you can set an example in life.”

His encounter with the Queen occurred in Toronto in 2010 (“she came on over and took my flowers”) and he met Prince Harry in 2016, also in Toronto, when he opened the Invictus Games.

The 30-year-old’s most recent brush with fame was last March in Toronto with King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium.

“I wrote to the embassy in Belgium saying I wanted to meet their highnesses in Toronto and I got to meet them in Toronto at Queen’s Park and I gave them Ti-Cat gear as well,” Atack said. “They talked about rugby over in Belgium and then there was actually a lot of media (at the event). I told the royal couple, I like your Belgian cookies and your waffles. They laughed and the media laughed, and a couple weeks later a chocolate factory sent me Belgian cookies!”

The biggest name that remains on Atack’s bucket list is former U.S. president Barack Obama.

“He has relatives in Burlington, a half-sister, and actually Autism Ontario on their Twitter account started a social media campaign back last October,” he said. “We’re at 1,137 retweets so far,” including three of Obama’s former White House staff members.

“I know it will happen eventually.”