{"id":582616,"date":"2026-04-04T22:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582616\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:46:08","slug":"sidney-crosby-passes-steve-yzerman-on-nhls-all-time-points-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582616\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Crosby passes Steve Yzerman on NHL&#8217;s all-time points list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With two points on Saturday against the Florida Panthers, Crosby reached 1,756 for his career and passed Steve Yzerman for seventh all-time.<\/p>\n<p>Crosby first got onto the scoresheet in the first period, when he assisted on Erik Karlsson&#8217;s power-play goal. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"pittsburgh-penguins\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> captain then dished his 41st assist of the season to longtime running mate Evgeni Malkin 5:51 into the second period.<\/p>\n<p>On the play, Malkin also made some history of his own, becoming just the 23rd NHL player to reach 1,400 career points.<\/p>\n<p> Crosby now has 653 career goals and 1,103 assists.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old centre remains the NHL&#8217;s active points leader and will now begin to chase Marcel Dionne, who sits in sixth all-time with 1,771.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With two points on Saturday against the Florida Panthers, Crosby reached 1,756 for his career and passed Steve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-582616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582616","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=582616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}