Revisiting Sidney Crosby's Milestone Targets

On Monday, the Pittsburgh Penguins introduced they prolonged their captain Sidney Crosby with a two-year settlement. The highest choose from the 2005 Draft will start his twentieth season with the franchise on Oct. 9.

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Moreover being the longest-tenured chief in Penguins historical past, Crosby sits behind Corridor of Famer Mario Lemieux in targets, assists, and factors. With a potential 264 video games left in his profession, Sid the Child had an opportunity to chase down his mentor and turn into Pittsburgh’s best statistical participant.

On the cusp of 600 targets, we thought it might be enjoyable to revisit all his milestone targets from one to 500 to have fun his contract announcement.

Related: BREAKING: Crosby signs two-year contract extension

This is a refresher for many who have forgotten the dates, goalies, and opponents.

First Objective (Oct. 8, 2005)

Hannu Toivonen (Boston Bruins) at Mellon Enviornment

Crosby started his profession with factors in his first six video games, choosing up assists in his first two video games. Despite the fact that the Penguins had began the season 0-4-5, the 18-year-old Crosby had 12 factors in these 9 video games.

In his third sport, he collected his NHL objective on the facility play at 18:32 of the second interval towards Hannu Toivonen and the Boston Bruins at Mellon Enviornment. Corridor of Famer Mark Recchi and Ziggy Palffy arrange his first lamplight.

Crosby would end the night time with three factors (two assists), whereas the Bruins would spoil the night’s festive environment by profitable in additional time, 7-6

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Enjoyable truth: This objective was the one time Crosby beat Toivonen in his profession.

one centesimal Objective (Oct. 18, 2008)

Curtis Joseph (Toronto Maple Leafs) at Mellon Enviornment

In his 218th NHL sport, Crosby scored his one centesimal objective at 12:15 of the third interval to assist the Penguins defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1. He contributed to each objective within the contest, incomes three assists for his tenth four-point sport.

His milestone lamplighter got here towards Curtis Joseph and was an even-strength marker assisted by Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang. This objective was the one one Crosby would tally on Joseph.

Enjoyable truth: Joseph surrendered eight one centesimal targets throughout his profession, together with gamers like Recchi, Tomas Holmstrom, and Henrik Zetterberg.

two hundredth Objective (Nov. 27, 2010)

Miikka Kiprusoff (Calgary Flames) at CONSOL Vitality Middle

Pittsburgh followers did not have to attend as lengthy for Crosby to tally his subsequent milestone objective, registering his two hundredth lamplighter simply two years afterward Nov. 27, 2010.

In one other residence contest, this time towards Miikka Kuprusoff and the Calgary Flames, Crosby collected his seventh profession hat trick, powering the Penguins to a 3-0 victory.

His second tally of the night time got here on the facility play at 9:12 of the third interval. Assists on the milestone objective got here from Paul Martin and Kris Letang. Crosby would add a shorthanded empty internet objective for the icing on the cake to finish the hat trick.

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Enjoyable truth: Kiprusoff would hand over 4 targets to Crosby over his profession. In the meantime, David Legwand and Martin Havlat additionally collected their two hundredth objective towards the Finnish netminder.

three hundredth Objective (Apr. 1, 2015)

Steve Mason (Philadelphia Flyers) at CONSOL Vitality Middle

Contemplating Crosby has collected 129 profession factors towards his Pennsylvania rival, the Philadelphia Flyers, all people is aware of they might finally seem on a milestone listing.

As Crosby continued climbing the Penguins’ all-time goal-scoring listing, he tallied his group’s solely lamplighter in a 4-1 loss to Steve Mason and the Flyers on Apr. 1, 2015. Opening the scoring within the first interval, at 3:29, he buried his three hundredth objective due to assists from Patric Hornqvist and Ian Cole.

Enjoyable truth: Mason gave up seven targets to Crosby, with six coming in a Flyers uniform from 2013 to 2016.

four-hundredth Objective (Feb. 11, 2018)

Jake Allen (St. Louis Blues) at Scottrade Middle

Crosby has scored some memorable targets in his profession, however when he turned solely the third Penguins skater to succeed in 400 targets, he achieved the milestone on the street.

Within the second interval of a sport towards the St. Louis Blues, Crosby tied the competition at 1-1 along with his even-strength objective at 3:31 on netminder Jake Allen. The one help went to Conor Sheary. Pittsburgh would win 4-1, with the captain amassing an empty internet objective within the third interval.

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Enjoyable truth: Eric Staal additionally scored his four-hundredth objective towards Allen, reaching his milestone objective on Nov. 3, 2018.

five hundredth Objective (Feb. 15, 2022)

Carter Hart (Philadelphia Flyers) at PPG Paints Enviornment

The Flyers seem on the listing once more, this time surrendering Crosby’s five hundredth profession objective on Jaromir Jagr‘s fiftieth birthday on Feb. 15, 2022. Within the first interval of a 5-4 Penguins additional time victory, the captain gave the house group a 2-1 lead along with his energy play tally towards Carter Hart at 16:34.

Malkin picked up the one help on the milestone objective, whereas Crosby would end the night with two factors after establishing Jake Guentzel‘s objective within the third interval.

Enjoyable truth: Crosby has scored a minimum of three targets towards the remaining 31 groups within the NHL however has a career-high 55 lamplighters towards the Flyers.

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