{"id":245468,"date":"2025-10-28T03:30:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245468\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T03:30:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:30:27","slug":"sidney-crosby-ninth-player-in-nhl-to-reach-1700-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/245468\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Crosby ninth player in NHL to reach 1,700 points"},"content":{"rendered":"

PITTSBURGH — Sidney Crosby<\/a> had a goal and two assists to become the ninth player in NHL history with 1,700 points and the Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> beat the St. Louis Blues<\/a> 6-3 on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Crosby, who accomplished the feat in the fourth-fewest games, is the fourth player in NHL history to reach the mark with one team. Crosby also had his 498th multi-point game, passing Mario Lemieux for the team record and sixth in NHL history on the all-time multi-point list.<\/p>\n

Evgeni Malkin<\/a> had a goal and an assist to extend his point streak to seven games, while Bryan Rust<\/a> had two goals and an assist. Parker Wotherspoon<\/a> scored his first with Pittsburgh and Anthony Mantha<\/a> added his fifth of the season.<\/p>\n

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Tristan Jarry<\/a> made 22 saves to help the Penguins get their fifth win in six games. Pittsburgh is 7-2-1 and hasn’t lost in regulation since Oct. 14 at Anaheim.<\/p>\n

Jordan Kyrou<\/a> extended a seven-game point streak with a goal, while Nick Bjugstad<\/a> and Mathieu Joseph<\/a> also scored for St. Louis. Joel Hofer<\/a> stopped 20 shots for the Blues, who lost their fourth straight game.<\/p>\n

St. Louis has lost five of their last six games and allowed more than six goals in four of those defeats.<\/p>\n

Crosby iced the game with a breakaway goal with 3:21 left in the third off a pass from Rust to make it 5-3. Crosby had the primary assist on Wortherspoon’s goal and the secondary helper on Rust’s second goal.<\/p>\n

Both teams played without top forwards. Penguins forward Rickard Rakell<\/a> will miss six-to-eight weeks after he was struck by a shot on Saturday against Columbus and underwent successful surgery on his left hand on Sunday. Robert Thomas<\/a> (upper body) and Jake Neighbours<\/a> (lower body), both normally on the Blues’ top line, are day-to-day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH — Sidney Crosby had a goal and two assists to become the ninth player in NHL history…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-245468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}