{"id":360740,"date":"2025-12-22T01:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/360740\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T01:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:20:07","slug":"penguins-sidney-crosby-passes-mario-lemieux-for-eighth-in-all-time-nhl-scoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/360740\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins\u2019 Sidney Crosby passes Mario Lemieux for eighth in all-time NHL scoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Sidney Crosby has made a habit out of making history-making moments, and Sunday night was no different. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The Pittsburgh Penguins\u2019 captain recorded two points in the first period of the team\u2019s game against the Montreal Canadiens, giving him two accomplishments at the same time: He passed Mario Lemieux for eighth on the NHL\u2019s all-time points list, as well as becoming the  all-time points leader in franchise history. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tweet-body_root__PqOVP\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"auto\">ONE PENGUINS LEGEND PASSES ANOTHER \ud83d\udc27<\/p>\n<p>Sidney Crosby passes Mario Lemieux for eighth all-time in NHL points and is now the all-time points leader in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/penguins\" class=\"tweet-link_root__UMq8J\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">@penguins<\/a> history! <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">During that time, he\u2019s broken the 100-point mark six times, recorded at least 50 assists 12 times, hit the 30-goal mark 13 times and has averaged more than a point-per-game in every season of his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Crosby also has 71 goals and 130 assists for 201 points in 180 career playoff games. He captained the Penguins to three Stanley Cup championships in 2009, 2016 and 2017, and helped them reach the Stanley Cup Final in 2008. He also won the Conn Smythe Trophy in both 2016 and 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Crosby has twice won each of the Hart Trophy, the Art Ross Trophy, the Maurice \u201cRocket\u201d Richard Trophy and the Ted Lindsay Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sidney Crosby has made a habit out of making history-making moments, and Sunday night was no different. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-360740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}