{"id":348718,"date":"2025-12-10T20:17:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/348718\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T20:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:17:46","slug":"revisiting-sidney-crosbys-chase-of-mario-lemieuxs-point-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/348718\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting Sidney Crosby\u2019s chase of Mario Lemieux\u2019s point record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Realistically, given how player point production drops in the latter years, combined with Crosby\u2019s injury history, the betting odds say that Mario is safe as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nhl\/teams\/pittsburgh-penguins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Penguins<\/a> #1 scorer of all time*.Crosby lost 113 games (or 160 points at his rate of scoring) due to injuries from 2011-2013 in what should have been the prime of his career, and that probably ended all doubt of whether or not Lemieux would remain number one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Still, what we\u2019re witnessing with Crosby- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhl.com\/ice\/playerstats.htm?navid=nav-sts-indiv#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who\u2019s 11 points up on everyone in the entire league right now<\/a> in scoring- is special. Just as Mario Lemieux was special, especially considering how few games he was able to play, and just how well he played despite being in a lot of pain even when he was able to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Barring some Jagr-esque commitment to play the game until an extremely late age, it seems unlikely that Crosby will pass Lemieux. But as we\u2019ve seen over the years, I sure wouldn\u2019t bet against greatness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Realistically, given how player point production drops in the latter years, combined with Crosby\u2019s injury history, the betting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[3625,5,4,118,1469,100,5216],"class_list":{"0":"post-348718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-general","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-penguins","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","14":"tag-pittsburghpenguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115697119677650044","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}