Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby reached one other main profession milestone on Saturday night time when he turned simply the twenty first participant in NHL historical past to attain 600 profession targets.
His purpose got here on the 3:11 mark of the second interval in Saturday’s sport towards the Utah Hockey Club.
Right here it’s.
This has been the Penguins’ worst season since Crosby’s rookie 12 months again in 2005-06, however Crosby stays a vibrant spot and continues to be top-of-the-line gamers in hockey even at age 37.
Crosby has not solely been the perfect participant of his period, however he is among the NHL’s all-time greats and has greater than exceeded the hype that surrounded him when he entered the league almost twenty years in the past. He has helped lead the Penguins to 4 Stanley Cup Last appearances and three Stanley Cup championships, whereas the crew additionally made the playoffs 16 years in a row between 2006-07 and 2021-22. They’ve missed the playoffs in every of the previous two seasons and are doubtless to take action once more this season.
The large “What if?” of Crosby’s profession goes to be what his profession numbers would seem like had a lot of his prime years not been misplaced to concussion points and a few NHL lockouts.
When Crosby was at his peak offensively between the 2010-11 and 2012-13 seasons he was in a position to play in simply 99 video games throughout these three years. Had it not been for the accidents and the lockout (to not point out the 2 pandemic-shortened seasons) he would most likely already be closing in on 700 targets if he had not already surpassed it.
It’s attainable that Crosby may climb as excessive as sixteenth on the all-time targets checklist this season as Jarome Iginla (625), Joe Sakic (625), Bobby Hull (610), Dino Ciccarelli (608) and Jari Kurri (601) are all inside attain.
