{"id":849393,"date":"2026-09-16T04:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/849393\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T04:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:48:14","slug":"crosby-wows-penguins-fans-while-delivering-season-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/849393\/","title":{"rendered":"Crosby wows Penguins fans while delivering season tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The family first bought season tickets in either 2010 or 2011, Neal said. It has since seen\u00a0Crosby win the Stanley Cup twice with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/evgeni-malkin-8471215\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evgeni Malkin<\/a>\u00a0and Letang, his teammates since 2006-07.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how to feel about them not being there,\u201d Neal said. \u201cI just consider myself lucky. Everyone I talk to about hockey (tells us) we\u2019re so lucky.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crosby is likely to make more deliveries next year, but it\u2019s technically not guaranteed. This season will be his 22nd in the NHL and last on a two-year, $17.4 million contract ($8.7 million average annual value) signed Sept. 16, 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At this point, it\u2019s taken one year at a time. Still producing at a high level, he led the Penguins with 74 points (29 goals, 45 assists) in 68 games last season to extend his NHL record of consecutive seasons averaging at least a point per game to 21.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crosby will become the longest-tenured professional athlete in Pittsburgh sports history, passing Willie Stargell (21 seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1962-82), but he gets that nothing lasts forever.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you talk to guys who are later in their careers. I think it\u2019s different for everyone,\u201d Crosby said. \u201cI don&#8217;t think you ever know until you get to that point, but I\u2019m guessing it\u2019s your level, it\u2019s how your body feels, it\u2019s a combination of all those things. Overall, I feel pretty good.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m hoping that\u2019s not something I have to think about too much, but that\u2019s just the reality of things. So, you know, we\u2019ll see, but I\u2019m happy with the way I feel.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Crosby won\u2019t look too far ahead. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fans were the sole focus Tuesday. This past Sunday, Crosby took in the Pittsburgh Steelers season opener with several of his teammates. On Thursday, he\u2019ll take the ice with them at training camp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a special time of year and will stay that way for as long as Crosby plays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like the excitement or anticipation has probably been pretty much the same from when I started,\u201d Crosby said. \u201cI think, you know, that feeling does never change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family first bought season tickets in either 2010 or 2011, Neal said. It has since seen\u00a0Crosby win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-849393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849393","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=849393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}