- ABC News
- November 24, 2024
PITTSBURGH -- Captain Sidney Crosby scored his 600th NHL goal for the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night during his team's 6-1 loss to the Utah Hockey Club. Crosby is the 21st player in NHL history to reach the milestone. He landed at 600 with 10 seconds left on a 5-on-3 power play, giving him seven goals in his past 12 games. Crosby finished a one-timer from the right side of the net, set up on a pass from Erik Karlsson at 3:11 of the second period. "It's hard to say. There's lots of time to think about that, when I'm done playing," Crosby said on the game broadcast when asked where No. 600 ranked on his list of career accomplishments. "But it's nice to get it. I've been hovering right around it." According to ESPN Research, Crosby, the No. 1 pick by the Penguins in the 2005 NHL draft, is the seventh player in league history to score 600 goals for a single franchise and the second to do so with Pittsburgh, after Mario Lemieux...