Crosby is eighth in NHL history with 1,724 points (645 goals, 1,079 assists) in 1,387 games. Lemieux retired in 2005 with 1,723 points (690 goals, 1,033 assists) in 915 games.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s kind of mixed emotions, I guess,\u201d Crosby said. \u201cBecause that number, I’ve been kind of hanging around. The hockey gods made me earn it, I feel like, the last few games. But just to get the win, to get a win in a shootout, it all kind of lined up well tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old Pittsburgh captain tied Lemieux by scoring his 20th goal this season, which came on a redirection of a shot-pass from Erik Karlsson and tied the game it 1-1 at 7:58 of the first period.<\/p>\n
Crosby then broke the record with the secondary assist on a power-play goal at 12:40. His initial slap shot hit Bryan Rust<\/a> near the crease before Rickard Rakell<\/a> scored on the loose puck to give Pittsburgh a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n The Penguins bench cleared to celebrate the milestone.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was incredible. You’re watching history. You’re seeing it firsthand,\u201d Pittsburgh coach Dan Muse said. \u201cI mean, it’s something you knew was coming, but just for everybody that was here today, everybody involved, it was incredible. For Sid, it’s just, yeah, he’s obviously such a humble person.<\/p>\n \u201cBut you know how special of a moment that has to be. I think back, even just conversations that I had with him just getting to know him, and you see how much pride he has in this organization and the history of this organization.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crosby is eighth in NHL history with 1,724 points (645 goals, 1,079 assists) in 1,387 games. Lemieux retired…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-363991","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\/363991","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=363991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}