#87 Sidney Crosby Milestone Thread - History will be made (Passes Gordie Howe for 10th place in assists all time 2025-03-02)

[Midnight Judges]

Too bad he's rotting @ PIT

Pittsburgh sacrificed quite a lot in service to the Malkin/Crosby/Letang window. Whatever drawbacks there are now, there generally were benefits previously.

 

[Ararana]

Too bad he's rotting @ PIT

Sid could walk into Dubas’ office and pick his destination if he wanted to. The dude is choosing loyalty over chasing cups to finish out his career, and that’s entirely his choice. It’s not like he has much of anything left to prove anyway.

 

[Greatzsky 99]

I would like that Montreal were contenders in 2 years, and Crosby make a trade to them, and finish
off with a Cup in Montreal.

 

[Greatzsky 99]

Crosby with 400 PP assists, 16th all time, could pass Bobby Hull in goals, next assist would tie him with
Gordie 1049, entering top 10, In RS+PO became tied with Yzerman for 1178 assists, 9th all time, 2 Games from entering top 50 all times games played (RS + PO)

 

[Greatzsky 99]

Crosby passed Hull and tied Howe! in under 3 minutes

new assist, PASSED Howe!

 

[Rodgerwilco]

With his second assist of the afternoon Crosby has now passed Gordie Howe for 10th all-time in assists.

 

[Shrimper]

Gretzky is going to lose two records over a few days, barring injuries, when they happen.

 

[Dessloch]

Full credit from the big guns!

 

[Richard]

Crazy, if the broke neck or the steckel hit had not occurred we would be looking at 2000 points

 

[Shrimper]

Crazy, if the broke neck or the steckel hit had not occurred we would be looking at 2000 points

It would be nailed on

 

[Greatzsky 99]

Whats next for Crosby(fingers crossed) ?
Think he is 7 points away from tying Yzerman ESP, he is 8 points from
tying "The Great One" most point with single franchise.

 

[Toby91ca]

Pittsburgh sacrificed quite a lot in service to the Malkin/Crosby/Letang window. Whatever drawbacks there are now, there generally were benefits previously.

It generally tends to be the case.....you can't be a powerhouse team year after year and keep going, at some point the team ages and you don't have great prospects because you didn't have high picks. Same thing happened to Detroit....they might get back to the playoffs this year, but it will be tight.

The other thing that can happen is you do really really well with young players, but then they need to get paid and you don't have enough room for all of them (this isn't PIT, but that happens to teams as well). I think it's the exception, rather than the norm that you can have a powerhouse without a downside for some years.

 

[Midnight Judges]

I think it's the exception, rather than the norm that you can have a powerhouse without a downside for some years.

Agree, but a team would have a helluva time achieving that while trading away 8 of their previous 12 first round draft picks like the Pens did.

 

[Toby91ca]

Whats next for Crosby(fingers crossed) ?
Think he is 7 points away from tying Yzerman ESP, he is 8 points from
tying "The Great One" most point with single franchise.

Correcting in tying Gretzky for points with a single franchise, but that's not the "most points with single franchise" - that record holder is Howe with 1,809. Crazy that Gretzky is close to that though even though the most he's played with one team is 9 years.

In terms of Crosby, I do like the idea of him finishing his career in PIT. I don't know why, but I do like to see guys stay with one franchise their whole careers. Well, maybe I only care about the great players in that regard. It does suck to see the end of their careers though, because generally the team sucks, so even if they are still good, they are wasting away a bit. Yzerman was lucky though, started out bad, but then his career overlapped with other star players such that they didn't all get old at the same time. Though, his career was basically pre-cap, so easier to keep a team competitive if you want to spend the money.

 

[Toby91ca]

Agree, but a team would have a helluva time achieving that while trading away 8 of their previous 12 first round draft picks like the Pens did.

Yup....but they had 3 cups during Crosby career, so well worth it. I'm sure the Leafs would trade away a ton of their future to get to lift the cup once. I must admit, I'd like to see what happens in Toronto if that were to happen. I've lived here since 1999, not a big Leafs fan, but don't mind seeing them win....local team and all. I remember, think it was 2002, I actually thought that had an easy path to the finals after getting Carolina in the 3rd round, but didn't happen. They would have likely had no chance against Detroit in the finals, but just being in the finals would be a big thing around here.

Sometimes it's hard to get out of the really dark days as well though....I mean, PIT was almost moved before getting Crosby. I'm not close enough to the team or the market to understand what was going on, but you don't want to see that either. I mean, Buffalo has been struggling for years and years now.....it's almost hard to be that bad for that long though isn't it?