{"id":425681,"date":"2026-01-23T20:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/425681\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T20:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:39:07","slug":"this-sidney-crosby-goal-broke-my-brain-and-the-laws-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/425681\/","title":{"rendered":"This Sidney Crosby Goal Broke My Brain (And the Laws of Physics)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crosby&#8217;s was on of three goals the Penguins scored in under 40 seconds<\/p>\n<p>PublishedJanuary 23, 2026 1:40 PM EST\u2022UpdatedJanuary 23, 2026 12:56 PM EST<\/p>\n<p>FacebookTwitterEmailCopy Link<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">I\u2019m a Flyers fan who has been trudging around this Earth with a Sasquatchian gait for 30 years, which means that for two-thirds of my life, I\u2019ve been terrorized and haunted by Pittsburgh Penguins captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/sidney-crosby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sidney Crosby<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Perhaps I\u2019ve just been browbeaten by two decades of trauma, but I\u2019ve found myself starting to admit \u2014 and even appreciate \u2014 Crosby\u2019s on-ice greatness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">It stings. But it\u2019s just reality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">And that\u2019s why I can\u2019t stop watching the goal No. 87 scored Thursday night against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/edmonton-oilers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a>. I think it may have broken some laws of physics, space, time, and perhaps even spacetime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">READ: <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/sports\/flyers-collapse-vs-mammoth-after-hathaway-miss?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">FLYERS LOSE GAME IN ONE OF THE MOST EMBARRASSING WAYS POSSIBLE<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/pittsburgh-penguins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Penguins<\/a> were on a tear early on the road in Edmonton. Anthony Mantha lit the lamp twice in quick succession to give Pittsburgh a 2\u20130 lead, and Sid decided he wanted in on the action.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Ryan Shea sent a pass toward Crosby in the slot, but it wasn\u2019t an ideal position to get a clean shot off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">No problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Crosby deflected the puck, and it changed direction at a mind-blowing angle, flying past his old teammate Tristan Jarry and into the back of the net for Pittsburgh\u2019s third goal in under 40 seconds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">That\u2019s something you usually see a couple feet outside the crease. Not from out in the slot like that. And if it does happen, the puck certainly doesn\u2019t change direction like it hit a wormhole and got spit out the other side.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">At full speed, it\u2019s a blink-and-you\u2019ll-miss-it moment. But slow it down, and it\u2019s jaw-dropping.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Tipping pucks is hard when you\u2019re standing on top of the crease. Doing it like that is bordering on sorcery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The Penguins went on to win 6\u20132 and have been on a roll this season, which is wild. A lot of idiots (sheepishly raises hand) thought the team should\u2019ve gone all-in on a rebuild.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Instead, they look like they could be a real factor when the Stanley Cup Playoffs roll around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crosby&#8217;s was on of three goals the Penguins scored in under 40 seconds PublishedJanuary 23, 2026 1:40 PM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-425681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}