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Darryl Pottie is a big Canadiens fan, but he also loves the Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby.

So Pottie, who lives in Enfield, N.S., decided to take a wild chance when he learned Crosby would be back in his home province last month for his day with the Stanley Cup in nearby Cole Harbour.

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Pottie took a big sheet of plywood and wrote: “Sid please sign my jersey”, hanging a Crosby No. 87 Penguins sweater from it. At night, Pottie would bring the jersey in the house, hanging it from the front window and leaving a light on just in case Crosby might drive by after dark.

Pottie left the sign up for a week, but then about two weeks ago he needed to use the piece of plywood for something else, so he took it down.

“I never really thought too much about it,” Pottie said during a phone interview from his home Sunday. “I figured Sid’s a pretty busy guy, so I certainly wouldn’t blame him one bit for not stopping.”

But last Friday, while Pottie was at work in Dartmouth — about a 30-minute drive away — the doorbell rang at his house. Pottie’s wife of 26 years, who was on vacation and wearing a bikini at the time, went to answer the door and couldn’t believe who was standing there.