Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby became the 21st player in NHL history to record 600 career goals with a milestone power-play tally on Saturday against the Utah Hockey Club.
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Crosby joins Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin as the only active players to hit the 600-goal milestone.
He also joins Gordie Howe, Steve Yzerman, Mario Lemieux, Joe Sakic and Bobby Hull as the seventh NHL player to score 600 goals for a single franchise.
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The goal, which marked Crosby’s eighth of the season, was a sharp-angle tally on an assist from Erik Karlsson that cut visiting Utah’s lead to 2-1.
Crosby was standing at the same spot beside the goal line when he scored his 500th career goal during a power play against the Philadelphia Flyers in February 2022.
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Both milestones were met with a standing ovation at PPG Paints Arena.
The Penguins are now the second team in history to have two 600-goal scorers with Crosby and Lemieux. The Detroit Red Wings previously saw both Howe and Yzerman hit the milestone.
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“It means a lot, obviously been here for a long time. To be able to do it at home, and have another memory with so many others, family here, it’s special,” Crosby said after the milestone on the SportsNet Pittsburgh broadcast.
Crosby can now continue climbing the list of the most goals scored with a single franchise. Five more goals will move him past the Chicago Blackhawks’ Bobby Hull for the sixth on the list.
The Penguins center meanwhile needs two more goals to move past Jari Kurri and crack the top 20 on the NHL’s all-time goalscoring leaderboard.
This isn’t the first time Crosby has celebrated a milestone this season. He recorded the 1,600th point of his career during an Oct. 16 overtime win over the Buffalo Sabres to become the 10th player in NHL history to clear the milestone.
Crosby already headed into the season with Jaromir Jagr for the fifth-most playoff points in NHL history with 201 in 180 career postseason games.
Through the first 22 games of the 2024-25 campaign, Crosby has gone through multiple goalscoring droughts as the Penguins struggled to a 7-11-4 start.
Since scoring career goal No. 599 against the San Jose Sharks last Saturday, Crosby was held off the scoreboard in an overtime loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning and regulation loss to the Winnipeg Jets before getting the chance to reach the milestone.
Crosby signed a two-year extension in September that is set to keep him in Pittsburgh through his age-39 season in 2026-27. He holds the all-time franchise record with 1,295 games played for the Penguins.
