The 2024-25 season has not gone as Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins may need hoped from a staff success standpoint. However Crosby, even at 37 years outdated, stays one of many league’s greatest gamers and is closing in on a milestone that will have him break a longstanding Wayne Gretzky file.
Due to his two assists on Sunday of their 4-3 shootout loss to the Florida Panthers, Crosby is now as much as 78 factors in his first 70 video games this season.
Meaning he’s simply two factors away from securing what could be his twentieth season averaging no less than a point-per-game within the NHL (as a result of he missed two video games this season essentially the most video games he can play is 80, that means he solely wants 80 factors to safe a point-per-game common).
That set an NHL file for many point-per-game seasons, breaking what’s a tie with Gretzky for essentially the most in NHL historical past.
Crosby has by no means averaged lower than some extent per recreation in anyone season in his profession, a testomony not solely to his dominance as a participant but additionally his overwhelming consistency to by no means actually decelerate.
What makes Crosby’s consistency so wonderful, particularly in relation to Gretzky, is that Crosby performed the majority of his profession in one of many lowest-scoring eras in NHL historical past. That was very true within the late 2000s and early 2010s when solely a handful of gamers ever reached a point-per-game stage in a season. Gretzky, in the meantime, performed in one of many highest-scoring eras in league historical past when there have been normally dozens of gamers every year reaching that mark.
That’s not to discredit Gretzky. It’s only a testomony to how nice Crosby has been relative to his period.
