{"id":948337,"date":"2026-11-01T04:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T04:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/948337\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T04:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T04:04:09","slug":"penguins-sidney-crosby-sets-nhl-record-for-assists-with-single-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/948337\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins&#8217; Sidney Crosby sets NHL record for assists with single franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/sidney-crosby\/433de553-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"433de553-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sidney Crosby<\/a>&#8216;s Hall of Fame resume grew a little longer on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>With a first-period helper on Erik Karlsson&#8217;s power-play goal against the Montreal Canadiens, Crosby set the NHL record for assists recorded with a single franchise.<\/p>\n<p>The assist was the 1,112th of Crosby career \u2014 all of them coming over his 22 seasons with the <a data-team=\"pittsburgh-penguins\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He surpassed the previous record holder, Ray Bourque, who racked up 1,111 assists over his 21 years playing for the Boston Bruins. <\/p>\n<p>Crosby added another assist and a goal later in the game which the Penguins lost 5-4. With his 1,113 apples, Crosby sits seventh on the all-time NHL leaderboard, 22 behind Paul Coffey. Wayne Gretzky is the career leader at 1,963.<\/p>\n<p>With three points Saturday, he is also now tied with Marcel Dionne for sixth on the all-time scoring list at 1,771 points.<\/p>\n<p>Crosby is off to a slow start by his standards in 2026-27, but now has three goals and five assists through the first 14 games of Pittsburgh&#8217;s season.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old has scored at above a point-per-game pace in each year of his career. In 2025-26, the longtime Penguins captain had 74 points (29 goals, 45 assists) in 68 contests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sidney Crosby&#8216;s Hall of Fame resume grew a little longer on Saturday. With a first-period helper on Erik&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-948337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948337","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=948337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}