Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby reached one other main profession milestone on Saturday night time when he grew to become 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 recreation in opposition to the Utah Hockey Membership.
Right here it’s.
This has been the Penguins’ worst season since Crosby’s rookie yr again in 2005-06, however Crosby stays a vivid spot and remains to be the most effective gamers in hockey even at age 37.
Crosby has not solely been the most effective 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 Closing appearances and three Stanley Cup championships, whereas the workforce 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 massive “What if?” of Crosby’s profession goes to be what his profession numbers would appear to be 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 capable of 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.
