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Sidney Crosby is still at the top of his game at 38 years old, and his advanced stats prowess helped him surpass Mario Lemieux for the most points in Pittsburgh Penguins history.
Crosby, who’s in his 21st season, had a multipoint game (one goal, one assist) against the Montreal Canadiens on Sunday. Crosby’s assist on Rickard Rakell’s power-play goal gave him 1,724 points in 1,387 career games to move ahead of his former teammate Lemieux (1,723 points in 915 games) for eighth in NHL history. Crosby, like Lemieux, has spent his entire career with Pittsburgh.
Crosby also scored his 20th goal of the season, tied for the seventh most in the entire League. After setting the NHL record for most consecutive point-per-game seasons (20) last season, Crosby is in position to add yet another such campaign (37 points in 35 games; leads Pittsburgh) to his resume, which includes three Stanley Cup championships (2009, 2016, 2017) and two Conn Smythe Trophy wins (2016, 2017) as most valuable player of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.