Dec 29, 2025, 07:18 AM ET<\/p>\n
Before they were NHL stars, they were phenoms.<\/p>\n
Players like Sidney Crosby<\/a> have wasted no time coming into the league and making an impact. The Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> playmaker kicked off his NHL career at 18 years old, notching his first Hart Memorial Trophy<\/a> at 19. In his two years as an NHL teenager, Crosby amassed 222 career points — the most for a player under 20.<\/p>\n In the 2025-26 season, former No. 1 draft pick Macklin Celebrini<\/a> started his sophomore season off strong for the San Jose Sharks<\/a>. The 19-year-old entered the holiday break matching Crosby’s 55-point mark from 2006 for the most points for a teenager before Christmas.<\/p>\n Check out which other players scored the most NHL points as teenagers below:<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n Sidney Crosby, 222<\/p>\n Wayne Gretzky, 220<\/p>\n Dale Hawerchuk, 194<\/p>\n Jimmy Carson, 186<\/p>\n Steve Yzerman, 176<\/p>\n Brian Bellows, 148<\/p>\n Ron Francis, 142<\/p>\n Bobby Carpenter, 136<\/p>\n Patrik Laine, 134<\/p>\n Phil Housley, 132<\/p>\n Check out the ESPN NHL hub page<\/a> for standings<\/a>, scores<\/a>, stats<\/a>, schedules<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 29, 2025, 07:18 AM ET Before they were NHL stars, they were phenoms. Players like Sidney Crosby…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-378692","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\/378692","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=378692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}