Sidney Crosby enters the 2024-25 season with 592 objectives in 1,272 video games. With out lacking important time in his mid-20s as a consequence of accidents, there’s an opportunity the Pittsburgh Penguins captain would already be nearer to 700 profession objectives than eight away from 600.
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Finally, Crosby has lit the lamp on 40 goalies over the previous 19 seasons, together with Hannu Toivonen (his first NHL objective) and Juuse Saros (his 592nd objective). In the meantime, he is collected a complete of 34 empty internet objectives.
Taking part in Metropolitan Division rivals extra incessantly means a few of their goalies will seem on the checklist extra typically. Nonetheless, Crosby has scored no less than one objective in opposition to each franchise, that means he is almost certainly seen some acquainted faces in other places.
This is a breakdown of the netminders who’ve surrendered essentially the most objectives to Crosby, who ranks twenty first all-time in objectives and tenth in factors.
Seven Goalies – 10 GA
After the 2023-24 season, Crosby has tallied no less than ten objectives in opposition to 14 netminders. Of these, solely seven have given up ten objectives:
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Braden Holtby (Vezina)
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Carey Worth (Hart Trophy & Vezina, 2016 World Cup teammates)
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Kari Lehtonen
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Martin Biron
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Ondrej Pavelec
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Roberto Luongo (2010 & 2014 Olympic teammates)
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Tomas Vokoun (Teammates in Pittsburgh 2012-13)
Surprisingly, Crosby has a private reference to three of the seven names on the checklist, having performed with them both within the NHL or on the worldwide stage.
Antero Nittymaki – 11 GA
Antero Nittymaki performed 5 of his seven seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers from 2003 to 2009. Because the Penguins’ fiercest rival, the Finnish goalie was on the unsuitable aspect of the ice every time Crosby would jump over the boards.
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After scoring his first NHL objective on Toivonen, Nittymaki surrendered his second objective. Curiously, Crosby had three two-goal video games in opposition to the Flyers netminder.
Ryan Miller – 11 GA
Because the long-time goalie for the Buffalo Sabres, Ryan Miller noticed loads of Crosby and surrendered ten out of the eleven objectives whereas enjoying with them. As a member of the Vancouver Canucks later in his profession, Miller gave up a objective at Rogers Enviornment, the positioning of Crosby’s most iconic objective – the 2010 Golden Goal – which additionally occurred to be on Miller, who was representing the US.
Brian Elliott – 12 GA
Brian Elliott was a journeyman goalie who dressed with six golf equipment throughout his 16-year profession. Whether or not he was in Philadelphia, Tampa Bay, Calgary, or Ottawa, Crosby simply appeared to have his quantity with 12 objectives scored. Curiously, Elliott is among the few goalies who has given objectives to him in each Mellon Enviornment and PPG Paints Enviornment.
Martin Brodeur – 12 GA
Martin Brodeur performed 1,266 video games and is the perfect statistical netminder in NHL historical past. As the first goalie for the New Jersey Devils for twenty years, he performed 9 seasons in opposition to Crosby, giving up 12 objectives.
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Collectively, these two gained the Olympic gold medal in 2010 however by no means crossed paths within the Stanley Cup playoffs. Like many names on this checklist, Brodeur escaped a Crosby hat trick with simply two two-goal video games in opposition to.
For perspective, Crosby scored objectives No. 30 and No. 227 in opposition to the Hockey Corridor of Famer, a testomony to Brodeur’s longevity.
Jaroslav Halak – 14 GA
Jaroslav Halak was a 17-year NHL veteran who performed for seven groups. Like Elliott, it did not matter the place Halak was tending objective; Crosby simply discovered methods to beat him, 14 occasions in actual.
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Though he did not play for any groups longer than 4 seasons, Halak did give six objectives to Sid the Child as a member of the New York Islanders from 2014 to 2018 and surrendered Crosby’s fourth profession hat trick in a contest on Oct. 28, 2009.
Henrik Lundqvist – 24 GA
Unsurprisingly, Henrik “The King” Lundqvist gave up essentially the most objectives to Crosby, as the 2 long-time rivals debuted collectively in 2005-06.
The one-time Vezina Trophy winner performed 15 seasons with the New York Rangers and surrendered 24 objectives to Crosby, together with three two-goal video games.
In 2005, Lundqvist gave up profession objective No. 19 after which missed out on being in internet for objective No. 400 (Jake Allen), permitting objective No. 399 on Jan. 14, 2018. Curiously, Crosby’s first seven objectives on The King got here through the ability play.
Contemplating the long-time Penguins captain has three seasons remaining on his deal, will there be an addition to the checklist, or will he develop the variety of goalies he is scored in opposition to? With each lamplighter, he will get near 600, thus making a future goalie a solution to a trivia query with every milestone objective.
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