The Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby continues to write his name in the NHL history books. Crosby scored his 30th goal of the season in a recent 5-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche and hit a pair of big career milestones in the process.

The 2022-23 season marks the 11th time Crosby had a 30-goal campaign, which ties him with Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux for most in Penguins’ history. Also, by having a 30-goal season at 35, he also became the first player in NHL history to record it at both age 18 and again at 35+.

“It means I’ve been in the league for a while,” Crosby jokingly said after being asked what these achievements mean to him. “That’s been the thing that’s driven me since I got into the league — in your first year, you want to prove that you belong. Even at 35, I still think you want to prove you belong, because it is a younger league.”

Crosby scored another goal in the meantime, bringing his total to 31. He now has back-to-back seasons in which he scored at least 31 goals and dished at least 53 assists. This impressive run follows a pair of campaigns in which Crosby struggled with injuries.

The Penguins will hope Crosby continues with great performances considering that they are currently in the hunt for a playoff spot. They have a 35-27-10 record in the Metropolitan Division, trailing the New York Islanders, who hold the last wild-card spot, by three points.

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Pittsburgh Penguins will be without captain Sidney Crosby during their opening game of the 2021-22 NHL season against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Crosby revealed this news in an episode of Monday Night Football.

While the 34-year-old star made the trip to Tampa Bay with his team and participated in practices, he is still recovering from a wrist surgery that he had in early September. His left wrist’s post-surgery recovery is expected to take six weeks.

Crosby’s leadership is not the only thing that will be lacking as the Penguins open the new season against the reigning Stanley Cup Champions. Center Evgeni Malkin has been ruled out of the clash as he recovers from an offseason knee injury, while forwards Jake Guentzel and Zach Aston-Reese will be unavailable after both players tested positive for COVID-19 during training camp.

The Penguins’ injured players proved to form a crucial part of the team’s offensive efforts last season, with Crosby leading the Penguins’ scoring with 62 points, followed by Guentzel with 57 points.

While the Lightning may be the reigning Stanley Cup champions, the Penguins have also proven to be highly successful in recent seasons, winning both the 2016 and 2017 Stanley Cup championships.

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Pittsburgh Penguins star center Sidney Crosby is ready to disregard a personal rivalry if that means witnessing history. During a chat with ESPN earlier this week, Crosby backed the Washington Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin to break the NHL’s scoring record.

Crosby and Ovechkin enjoyed a prolific rivalry since they entered the league in 2005, going head to head for awards and scoring titles multiple times. But the past isn’t stopping Crosby from wishing that his contemporary will surpass Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky and his mark of 894 goals in the league.

“I hope he does. I told him today that I hope he does,” said Crosby, who has 486 NHL goals of his own. “It would be awesome. He’s in range.”

Ovechkin has played 17 seasons in the league and scored 730 NHL goals. Getting 164 more seems doable, especially since the 36-year-old legend recently signed a five-year extension with Washington that should see him play through the 2025-26 NHL season.

 But despite being in reaching range of such a big all-time record, Ovechkin is trying not to think about it.

“I don’t even think about it right now, to be honest,” Ovechkin said via ESPN. “Because it’s too far. It’s a long way. And it’s a hard way. Whatever happens, happens.”

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Pittsburgh Penguins captain and team leader Sidney Crosby once again needed surgery. This time it was a procedure on his wrist. However, the team would not say which wrist was in question.

According to the team, the procedure was successfully performed on Monday, August 31. The good news for Penguins fans is that the injury does not appear to be serious because Crosby is expected to be fully recovered in one month at the latest if no complications arise.

Crosby has been in an out of the operating room this year a few times. The 33-year-old franchise star had to repair his core in November, which led to Crosby missing well over two months of the season.

Crosby was also out for a short period of about a week in July, but no official statements were released at the time regarding why he wasn’t participating in practices.

The Penguins were eliminated in the playoffs by the underdog Montreal Canadiens, losing the best-of-five series 3-1. And while Crosby played in all four games, he clearly wasn’t himself, recording only two goals and one assist.

He was particularly quiet in the last two games of the series, during which he was only able to record four shots on goal.

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The New York Rangers have secured the first pick in the 2020 NHL draft by winning the draft lottery on Monday.

That means that they will most likely be welcoming Alexis Lafreniere to the team, who is the consensus No. 1 pick. This bodes very well for a Rangers team that began a rebuild in 2018 and has had a surprising amount of success in speeding up the process by making a string of very smart roster moves.

New York had the second pick in the 2019 draft and selected lauded Finnish winger Kaapo Kakko. After that, they picked up star free agent Artemi Panarin, who had a brilliant season this year and was one of the finalists in the run for league MVP.

Asked about the proposition of playing in New York, Lafreniere seems to be completely on board, stating that the Rangers are “an unreal team” and that he is “really happy” that they have the first pick.

Lafreniere is an 18-year-old winger from Quebec. He’s 6-foot-1 and he led the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League this year with 112 points in 52 games before the season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lafreniere and Pittsburg Penguins star captain Sidney Crosby are the only two players in history to win the QMJHL MVP awards in back-to-back seasons.

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The Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby continues to write his name in the NHL history books. Crosby scored his 30th goal of the season in a recent 5-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche and hit a pair of big career milestones in the process.

The 2022-23 season marks the 11th time Crosby had a 30-goal campaign, which ties him with Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux for most in Penguins’ history. Also, by having a 30-goal season at 35, he also became the first player in NHL history to record it at both age 18 and again at 35+.

“It means I’ve been in the league for a while,” Crosby jokingly said after being asked what these achievements mean to him. “That’s been the thing that’s driven me since I got into the league — in your first year, you want to prove that you belong. Even at 35, I still think you want to prove you belong, because it is a younger league.”

Crosby scored another goal in the meantime, bringing his total to 31. He now has back-to-back seasons in which he scored at least 31 goals and dished at least 53 assists. This impressive run follows a pair of campaigns in which Crosby struggled with injuries.

The Penguins will hope Crosby continues with great performances considering that they are currently in the hunt for a playoff spot. They have a 35-27-10 record in the Metropolitan Division, trailing the New York Islanders, who hold the last wild-card spot, by three points.

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Pittsburgh Penguins will be without captain Sidney Crosby during their opening game of the 2021-22 NHL season against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Crosby revealed this news in an episode of Monday Night Football.

While the 34-year-old star made the trip to Tampa Bay with his team and participated in practices, he is still recovering from a wrist surgery that he had in early September. His left wrist’s post-surgery recovery is expected to take six weeks.

Crosby’s leadership is not the only thing that will be lacking as the Penguins open the new season against the reigning Stanley Cup Champions. Center Evgeni Malkin has been ruled out of the clash as he recovers from an offseason knee injury, while forwards Jake Guentzel and Zach Aston-Reese will be unavailable after both players tested positive for COVID-19 during training camp.

The Penguins’ injured players proved to form a crucial part of the team’s offensive efforts last season, with Crosby leading the Penguins’ scoring with 62 points, followed by Guentzel with 57 points.

While the Lightning may be the reigning Stanley Cup champions, the Penguins have also proven to be highly successful in recent seasons, winning both the 2016 and 2017 Stanley Cup championships.

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Pittsburgh Penguins star center Sidney Crosby is ready to disregard a personal rivalry if that means witnessing history. During a chat with ESPN earlier this week, Crosby backed the Washington Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin to break the NHL’s scoring record.

Crosby and Ovechkin enjoyed a prolific rivalry since they entered the league in 2005, going head to head for awards and scoring titles multiple times. But the past isn’t stopping Crosby from wishing that his contemporary will surpass Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky and his mark of 894 goals in the league.

“I hope he does. I told him today that I hope he does,” said Crosby, who has 486 NHL goals of his own. “It would be awesome. He’s in range.”

Ovechkin has played 17 seasons in the league and scored 730 NHL goals. Getting 164 more seems doable, especially since the 36-year-old legend recently signed a five-year extension with Washington that should see him play through the 2025-26 NHL season.

 But despite being in reaching range of such a big all-time record, Ovechkin is trying not to think about it.

“I don’t even think about it right now, to be honest,” Ovechkin said via ESPN. “Because it’s too far. It’s a long way. And it’s a hard way. Whatever happens, happens.”

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Pittsburgh Penguins captain and team leader Sidney Crosby once again needed surgery. This time it was a procedure on his wrist. However, the team would not say which wrist was in question.

According to the team, the procedure was successfully performed on Monday, August 31. The good news for Penguins fans is that the injury does not appear to be serious because Crosby is expected to be fully recovered in one month at the latest if no complications arise.

Crosby has been in an out of the operating room this year a few times. The 33-year-old franchise star had to repair his core in November, which led to Crosby missing well over two months of the season.

Crosby was also out for a short period of about a week in July, but no official statements were released at the time regarding why he wasn’t participating in practices.

The Penguins were eliminated in the playoffs by the underdog Montreal Canadiens, losing the best-of-five series 3-1. And while Crosby played in all four games, he clearly wasn’t himself, recording only two goals and one assist.

He was particularly quiet in the last two games of the series, during which he was only able to record four shots on goal.

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The New York Rangers have secured the first pick in the 2020 NHL draft by winning the draft lottery on Monday.

That means that they will most likely be welcoming Alexis Lafreniere to the team, who is the consensus No. 1 pick. This bodes very well for a Rangers team that began a rebuild in 2018 and has had a surprising amount of success in speeding up the process by making a string of very smart roster moves.

New York had the second pick in the 2019 draft and selected lauded Finnish winger Kaapo Kakko. After that, they picked up star free agent Artemi Panarin, who had a brilliant season this year and was one of the finalists in the run for league MVP.

Asked about the proposition of playing in New York, Lafreniere seems to be completely on board, stating that the Rangers are “an unreal team” and that he is “really happy” that they have the first pick.

Lafreniere is an 18-year-old winger from Quebec. He’s 6-foot-1 and he led the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League this year with 112 points in 52 games before the season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lafreniere and Pittsburg Penguins star captain Sidney Crosby are the only two players in history to win the QMJHL MVP awards in back-to-back seasons.

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