Sidney Crosby secures 19th straight season point-per-game season

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Sidney Crosby has reached one more profession milestone together with his nineteenth straight point-per-game season. 

Crosby reached that milestone on Monday evening with two objectives and an help within the workforce’s 5-2 win over the New York Rangers at Madison Sq. Backyard, placing the Penguins captain into an unique membership. 

Crosby and Wayne Gretzky at the moment are the one two gamers in NHL historical past to achieve that milestone of 19 point-per-game seasons.

Solely 9 gamers in NHL historical past have registered 15 or extra point-per recreation seasons and three of them have achieved so completely in Penguins uniforms with Crosby becoming a member of Mario Lemieux and Evgeni Malkin on the record.

Crosby was requested after the sport if he plans to answer Wayne Gretzky about tying the milestone first or whether or not he plans to answer his mother and father first. 

“Uh, I do not know,” Crosby mentioned as he laughed. “That is placing a whole lot of strain on me there. Whoever texted first, perhaps?… Any time you might be in that firm, it is fairly cool.”  

Along with the point-per-game milestone, Sidney Crosby has additionally scored 30 objectives this season for the twelfth time in his profession and sits simply three assists away from reaching the 1,000 mark for his profession. 

“It would not shock me,” said Penguins head coach Mike Sullivan. “All of those milestones that he is reaching at this level are simply extra proof that he is one of many best gamers of all time – not simply his era. He is in elite firm in all these classes.”