Sidney Crosby turns 38: Reliving the Penguins star’s top 10 moments over legendary NHL career

Sidney Crosby is 38 years old. Yes, you read it well. Crosby, known to most of its iconic hockey career as “Sid the Kid”, is now one of the Nhl’s Large statesmen while preparing for their 21st season.

Crosby, who has spent his entire career with the Pittsburgh Penguins, has enjoyed a 20 -year career that has lived more than the incredible drum that was placed before his first. Nhl change. Although there are more chapters to write, Crosby is already considered one of the greatest players to fit skates.

The long list of Crosby accomplishments includes being eight times all-star, three times the Stanley Cup champion, twice winner of Hart’s winner, Ross Art, Connhythe and Maurice Richard, a three-time winner of the TED Lindsay Award and a member of the Nhl Centennial team.

In recognition of his birthday, here is a ranking of the ten best moments of Crosby’s NHL’s incredible career so far.

Honorary Mention: Getting to clutch at the 2008 Stanley Cup final

While the Penguins lost the series to the Red Wings, the attendance of Crosby in the afternoon of the match 5 of the 2008 Stanley Cup final is still a mention, as he played a key role in what is still the sixth game in the history of the Cup. It is also an example of Crosby’s ability to go on clutch.

Directing a goal with less than a minute left in the regulation, the multitude of selling detroit counted the second before the red wings were just the Stanley Cup. But instead of witnessing a celebration, the crowd saw silent after Crosby and Marian Hossa helped Maxime Talbot’s goal.

With the red wings trying to erase shit, Crosby maintained possession in the Detroit area before finding Hossa, who made a pass that Talbot passed in front of goalkeeper Chris Osgood. Teams were dedicated to two extraordinary periods without score before Petr Sykora Delivered the winner of the game Halfway from the third extension.

10. An amazing season of new

It didn’t take long for Crosby to hit. At the age of 18, Crosby reached his first career (an assistance for teammate Mark Recchi) in his first game to start a memorable new season that saw him recorded 102 points, the fifth more of the league that season.

One of Crosby’s most memorable moments that year took place in a mid -November match against rival Flyers in Philadelphia. Crosby helped the first goal of the game, scored the second goal of the game and then scored the winner of the game in the extension.

As good as his starting season, Crosby ended behind Alexander Ovechkin from Washington for Rookie of the Year honors. It was a proper result given the rivalry that the two generational talents have shared over the last two decades.

9. Winner’s winning target

In terms of individual moments, Crosby’s winning firing goal against the Buffalo knowledge of the first NHL Winter Classic is a always classic. After attending Pittsburgh’s sole purpose in regulatory, Crosby silenced the 71,217 party partisan crowd after standing in the legs of goalkeeper Ryan Miller and the back of the net, raising Pittsburgh to a 2-1 victory.

8. Younger score champion

Crosby was built of his impressive Rookie season with an even better campaign. During the 2006-07 season, Crosby became the youngest player in NHL history to lead the league to score after a maximum of 120 career points.

Crosby’s success that season led him to win his first Hart Memorial Trophy, awarded to the most valuable player in the league. He also coincided with the penguins doing the playoffs for the first time in six years. That year marked the first of 16 consecutive playoff seasons for Pittsburgh.

This season was also remarkable, as it marked the first time Crosby had been carrying the captain’s “C” in his shirt.

7. Foiling The Flyers

The victory of the Penguins series on Flyers in match 6 of the first round of the playoffs in 2009 is more remembered by Talbot’s Shush in the crowd After his struggle, he seemed to capture the upload of the penguins by a 3-0 deficit. But Crosby also played a key role, as he scored delivery and achievement goals as Pittsburgh eliminated his opponent.

This game summarizes almost Crosby’s career against Philadelphia. No player in the NHL history has scored more points or goals against the Flyers.

6. Capital Caiging

The confrontation of the Penguins-Capitals in the second round of the 2009 playoffs was a defining moment in the rivalry of Crosby -ovechkin. After falling the first two games, Crosby and the Penguins met to win three in a row before losing their extension at home 6.

In Washington for Party 7, Marc-Andre Fleury set the tone soon with an Ovechkin glove. Crosby took advantage of moments later when he buried a deviation pass ahead of Semyon Varlamov for the first goal of the game. Crosby’s goal begun an avalanche of points for the penguins, who went out on the 5-0 score halfway through the second. It was 5-1 when Crosby scored the final goal of Pittsburgh Night in the third.

The penguins captured their first Stanley Cup since 1992, Defeat the red wings in an exciting seven -game series. While Crosby played a key role in the championship, the Conn Smythe Award was given to his teammate, Evgeni Malkin, who scored 36 points during the later season.

5. Back on top

It is difficult to believe now, but there was a time when many feared that Crosby’s career would end prematurely after he suffered several injuries to the head in 2011. After playing in only 22 games during the 2011-12 season, Crosby lost more time during the 2012-13 season after breaking his jaw.

Crosby re -trained the following season, however, leading the NHL in both assists (68) and in points (104) en route to win his second Ross Art Trophy, as well as the Hart Memorial Trophy and Ted Lindsay Award.

5. Passing “the Great”

In addition to having his score for goals scored by Ovechkin, Wayne Gretzky saw another of his records broken during the 2024-25 season. On March 27, Crosby got his twenty consecutive season with at least one game point After scoring a goal against the knowledge. Gretzky had achieved this feat in 19 consecutive seasons.

“Consistency and ethics and labor passion … It is a responsibility that you have to do to each other.” Said crosby After overcoming Gretzky. “I think consistency, it is always a job in progress. Every day is not perfect. There are more difficult times than others during the year. I always try to have it. But that does not mean that you do not have bad days or days when you are not at the best time, but you try not to leave them.”

3. Crosby wins at Conn Smythe As Pens wins Cupes

Although he is one of the best scorers in NHL history, Crosby has been even more productive in the creation of his teammates. He has currently been tied by 16th place in scored goals and tenth in career assists.

Given these statistics, the third and most recent Stanley Cup of Penguins should include several Crosby assists during the later season. He helped Chris Kunitz’s goal, which gave Pittsburgh a victory over Ottawa in the 7th of the 2017 Eastern Conference Final. And in the 5th of the Stanley Cup final, Crosby won three wizards in Pittsburgh’s victory over Nashville’s predators. Pittsburgh then won match 6 to become the first NHL repeated champion in 19 years.

2. Crosby leads pen in the Stanley Cup 2016

After several disappointing results from Playoff, Crosby and the penguins returned to the mountain in 2016, capturing their first Stanley Cup in seven years. In the process, Crosby won his first Smythe Trophy after making several great plays during the Pittsburgh race for the playoffs.

Undoubtedly, the biggest goal of Crosby’s career took place during match 2 of the Eastern Conference Final. After losing the game 1 against the lightning, the Penguins won a 2-0 lead in match 2 before allowing two unanswered goals. The game entered the extension, where Crosby delivered the game winner to only 40 seconds in the additional session. Crosby buried his shot that was created by Bryan Rust on the left wing.

After defeating the lightning in an exhausting series of seven games, the Penguins entered the 6 game of their final confrontation of the Stanley Cup with the sharks with a 3-2 series leadership. In what was ultimately the Clincher series for Pittsburgh, Crosby helped the winning goal of the Kris Letang Game for a long time in the second period and the Patric Hornqvist’s net-Net account in the last minutes.

1. The golden goal

Part of Crosby’s legacy is his success by playing Team Canada. It is a combined 48-6-1, including two Olympic gold medals, gold medals at the IIHL World Championship (2015) and the Hockey World Cup (2016) and a victory in the face of 2025 4 nations. Team Canada won 26 consecutive games with Crosby from 2010-25.

Crosby’s biggest moment as he played Team Canada, and possibly his biggest moment as a professional hockey player, took place against Team USA in the Gold Medals game at the 2010 Olympic Games. In the extension, Crosby raised his team to the victory when he took the pass of Jarome Iginla and put him ahead of Ryan Miller.

Although the goal did nothing to deepen the TEAM USA fans, it raised Crosby’s stature as one of the great players of all Canada, a fraternity that also includes Gretzky, Bobby Orr and Gordie Howe.