The 2024-25 season has not gone as Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins might need hoped from a workforce 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 However Crosby, even at 37 years outdated, stays one of many league’s greatest gamers and is closing in on a milestone that may have him break a longstanding Wayne Gretzky report.
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.
Which means he’s simply two factors away from securing what can be his twentieth season averaging at the very least 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, which means he solely wants 80 factors to safe a point-per-game common).
That set an NHL report 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 a degree per recreation in anyone season in his profession, a testomony not solely to his dominance as a participant but in addition his overwhelming consistency to by no means actually decelerate.
What makes Crosby’s consistency so superb, 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 annually reaching that mark.
That’s not to discredit Gretzky. It’s only a testomony to how nice Crosby has been relative to his period.
