DETROIT - Sidney Crosby may be the best hockey player in the world.

He's a three-time Stanley Cup champion and two-time MVP. He's tasted Olympic gold twice and made six NHL All-Star teams. So, what's left to accomplish?

Apparently, playing goalie.

In an interview with the Dan Patrick Show on June 27, the Pittsburgh Penguins captain told the host he would love to be able to take the post between the pipes before his career is over.

"I told them if anything ever happened, I'd love to get the nod," Sid the Kid said. "I'd love to be able to play one game in the NHL. We'll see, there's still some time left if it ever came down to it. That'd be pretty cool."

Patrick then asked Crosby the one player he would want to face while playing goalie. His answer: former Red Wings great Pavel Datsyuk.

"He's made so many goalies look bad," Crosby said. "If I could somehow find a way to get my pad on it or stop him, he seems like one of the best shootout guys that there was so on a breakaway, he'd be pretty good."

Good luck with that, Sid.

Datsyuk, of course, retired from the NHL in 2016. He currently plays for SKA Saint Petersburg in Russia's Kontinental Hockey League.

Crosby's father Troy was a goaltender who was drafted by the Montreal Canadians in 1984, but never played in the NHL. Crosby said he's never seen his dad play goalie on the ice, but wanted to follow in his father's footsteps at a young age. His father convinced him not to.

"He told me that it's not fun. You just stand there," he said. "You're not around the puck very much. It's true as a kid, as a goalie you're not really involved. Everyone is kind of chasing the puck its going everywhere so he convinced me not to. It was something I probably liked more as a young kid with all the gear and stuff like that."

Crosby led the Penguins to their second-straight Stanley Cup earlier this month. It's the third he's won since the team drafted him No. 1 overall in the 2005 NHL Draft.

Already considered one of the greatest players of all-time, Crosby has scored 382 goals and amassed more than 1,000 points in his 12-year career.