CROSBY VS. OVECHKIN<\/p>\n
The 2026-27 season marks the 22nd season that generational talents Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin face off. The two have taken part in 75 head-to-head matchups, where Crosby and the Penguins have gone 43-28-4 against Ovechkin and the Capitals.<\/p>\n
Below are their stats when facing each other in the regular season:<\/p>\n
Player\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0GP\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0G\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0PTS<\/p>\n
Sidney Crosby\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a075\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a035\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a062\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a097<\/p>\n
Alex Ovechkin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a075\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a038\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a033\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a071<\/p>\n
Not only is the Crosby\/Ovechkin rivalry one of the NHL\u2019s best, but it\u2019s also the league\u2019s longest-standing rivalry. Crosby and Ovechkin are the only two players in the NHL to play for the same team since the beginning of the 2005-06 season, and are two of just four players that are still active that also played in 2005-06 (also Corey Perry and Brent Burns).<\/p>\n
The 2026-27 season marks the 22nd consecutive season that Crosby and Ovechkin have played one another. Only one forward-duo in NHL history has played against each other in more consecutive campaigns: Ron Francis and Mark Messier (23 seasons).<\/p>\n
The two have combined to win four Stanley Cups, five Hart trophies (regular-season MVP) three Art Ross trophies (most points), 11 Rocket Richard trophies (most goals), three Conn Smythe awards (playoff MVP) and six Ted Lindsay awards (most outstanding player) among other awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CROSBY VS. OVECHKIN The 2026-27 season marks the 22nd season that generational talents Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-301598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}