A Legend Amongst Us
Sidney Crosby is a legend.
If it wasn’t obvious already by
the numerous team and individual awards he’s won over the years – most recently
his second Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Conn Smythe and MVP of
the World Cup of Hockey 2016 while leading Team Canada to victory – this might
help.
On Thursday night the Penguins
played the lackluster Winnipeg Jets, but Crosby passed another milestone. He
became the 12th fastest player to reach 1,000 points doing so in
just 757 NHL games. This puts Crosby just ahead of Jaromir Jagr (763 games).
It was only fitting that Crosby
would end up with three points on the night and the game-winning goal in
overtime. The supporting cast of Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang, Chris Kunitz and
Marc-Andre Fleury by his side was extremely present. Each picked up at least
one point and Fleury made an impressive 44 saves in a 4-3 Penguins victory.
Crosby got his 1,000th
point when he set up Kunitz to make it 2-0 with 6:28 remaining in the first
period and ended the night with a beautiful tap-in from Malkin with 21.1
seconds left in overtime.
On Oct. 5, 2005, Crosby picked up
his first point with an assist to Mark Recchi and on Feb. 16, 2017 he reached the milestone not many
players ever do. Can you believe that if health problems hadn’t been a factor
he could’ve passed that milestone months ago?
Crosby is on pace to reach the
40-goal mark for the second time in his career as well as the 100 point mark
for the second time since the 2009-10 season.
With the roll he’s on this season and the success he’s had throughout his entire career, Crosby’s career milestones are far from over. Welcome to the 1,000th point club Crosby, only 998 more to go until your 2,000th.
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