{"id":392478,"date":"2026-01-05T22:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/392478\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T22:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:07:11","slug":"sidney-crosby-named-nhls-2nd-star-of-the-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/392478\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Crosby named NHL\u2019s 2nd star of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sidney Crosby has been named the NHL\u2019s second star of the week after scoring 4 goals and 4 assists for the Penguins in 4 games \u2014 all wins for Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Crosby was joined on the NHL\u2019s stars of the week list with Tampa Bay\u2019s Nikita Kucherov (3 goals and 7 assists in 3 games) and Toronto\u2019s Auston Matthews (5 goals and 1 assist in 2 games).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Penguins had a perfect week thanks to Sidney Crosby\u2019s efforts with his eight points as Pittsburgh defeated Carolina, Detroit twice, and Columbus this past week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the victory against the Blue Jackets, the Penguins trailed 4-1 before rallying back to tie the game in regulation and win it in overtime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Crosby\u2019s goal that won the game for the Penguins was his 25th career overtime goal and 50th career overtime point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Pittsburgh has won five in a row in total and with their winning streak in tow, the Penguins are back in a Wild Card playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Crosby has points in seven straight games dating back to before Christmas and sits 14th in the league with 47 overall points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Penguins now have a few days off and get back in action Thursday night when they host the New Jersey Devils at PPG Paints Arena. Puck drop is set for 7:00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sidney Crosby has been named the NHL\u2019s second star of the week after scoring 4 goals and 4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[3625,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-392478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-general","9":"tag-hockey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115844772462695817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392478","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=392478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}