The Pittsburgh Penguins‘ star gamers are off to a sizzling and historic begin to their 2024-25 NHL marketing campaign.
On the identical evening staff captain Sidney Crosby notched his 1,600th career point , teammate Evgeni Malkin tallied his five hundredth profession purpose.
The 38-year-old winger, drafted in 2004 by Pittsburgh, scored early within the third interval to interrupt a impasse with the Buffalo Sabres and provides his staff a 4-3 lead.
Malkin is simply the fourth energetic participant to achieve the 500-goal mark, behind Steven Stamkos (555 objectives), Crosby (592) and Alexander Ovechkin (853). He is now tied for 47th on the all-time leaderboard with Corridor of Famer Lanny McDonald.
Malkin additionally turned solely the twentieth participant in league historical past to notch 500 objectives with a single staff, per Penguins PR.
He joins Crosby and Mario Lemieux as the one Pittsburgh gamers to achieve the benchmark, making it solely the second team all-time to have three 500-goal scorers (Montreal – Man Lafleur, Jean Beliveau and Maurice “Rocket” Richard).
The massive evening completes a hat-trick of historic career milestones in just the past week for Malkin, who recorded his 800th help on Oct. 10 after which additionally his 1,three hundredth level simply two days later — changing into simply the third energetic participant to do both.
The one different energetic participant to notch as many factors as Malkin and Crosby is Washington Capitals captain Ovechkin (1,553).
Tuesday evening he turned only the sixth player all-time to report a minimum of 700 profession objectives and assists, one other milestone in his chase to move Wayne Gretzky for many objectives all-time (894).
