Feels like every other game, someone is hitting a big milestone this season. Tonight's milestone: Sidney Crosby's three assists gave him 1,026 career assists, surpassing Gordie Howe's 1,023 with the Red Wings for the fifth-most with a single team in NHL history. Next up? Mario Lemieux, with 1,033. That one will obviously give Crosby the new franchise lead, too.
• Crosby is now within 100 points of the franchise lead in points. Lemieux leads with 1,723, and Crosby is now at 1,626.
• Bryan Rust recorded at least six shots in a game for the third time this season.
• Rust's hat trick was the sixth of his career, the most of any player since Rust came into the league in 2014-15. Rust surpassed Jake Guentzel's five career hat tricks in Pittsburgh and is now tied with Mike Bullard for the ninth-most hat tricks in franchise history. Next up: Rob Brown, with seven. Lemieux leads with 40, and Crosby and Evgeni Malkin are tied for second with 13 each.
• Crazy things happened when Erik Karlsson and Marcus Pettersson were on the ice together at five-on-five: The Penguins controlled 86.21% of shot attempts (25-4), 85% of unblocked attempts (17-3) and 88.89% of shots on goal (16-2). Three of the Penguins' nine goals came with the second defense pairing on the ice.
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Feels like every other game, someone is hitting a big milestone this season. Tonight's milestone: Sidney Crosby's three assists gave him 1,026 career assists, surpassing Gordie Howe's 1,023 with the Red Wings for the fifth-most with a single team in NHL history. Next up? Mario Lemieux, with 1,033. That one will obviously give Crosby the new franchise lead, too.
• Crosby is now within 100 points of the franchise lead in points. Lemieux leads with 1,723, and Crosby is now at 1,626.
• Bryan Rust recorded at least six shots in a game for the third time this season.
• Rust's hat trick was the sixth of his career, the most of any player since Rust came into the league in 2014-15. Rust surpassed Jake Guentzel's five career hat tricks in Pittsburgh and is now tied with Mike Bullard for the ninth-most hat tricks in franchise history. Next up: Rob Brown, with seven. Lemieux leads with 40, and Crosby and Evgeni Malkin are tied for second with 13 each.
• Crazy things happened when Erik Karlsson and Marcus Pettersson were on the ice together at five-on-five: The Penguins controlled 86.21% of shot attempts (25-4), 85% of unblocked attempts (17-3) and 88.89% of shots on goal (16-2). Three of the Penguins' nine goals came with the second defense pairing on the ice.
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