{"id":936316,"date":"2026-10-17T10:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T10:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936316\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T10:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T10:32:08","slug":"penguins-crosby-moves-into-seventh-on-nhls-all-time-assists-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/936316\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins&#8217; Crosby moves into seventh on NHL&#8217;s all-time assists list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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=\"nofollow noopener\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> captain recorded his 1,110th career assist against the Colorado Avalanche on Friday, moving past Joe Thornton for sole possession of seventh place on the NHL&#8217;s all-time assists list.<\/p>\n<p>Crosby now sits 25 assists behind Paul Coffey, who occupies sixth place with 1,135. Wayne Gretzky remains the league&#8217;s all-time leader with 1,963.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the latest in a long list of accomplishments for the 39-year-old, who is in his 22nd season with the Penguins and has already established himself as the franchise&#8217;s all-time points leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins captain recorded his 1,110th career assist against the Colorado Avalanche on Friday, moving past Joe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-936316","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\/936316","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=936316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}