It's only been one game, but Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby is nipping at the bud to score his 600th goal. Will it come in the next game or next week? What's the average time it takes someone to score their 600th goal after netting No. 599?

Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby is sitting on 599 goals and came ever so close on Tuesday night to 600 but rang one off the post against Andrei Vasilevskiy and the Tampa Bay Lightning.

The Penguins captain is looking to become the latest player to enter the 600-goal club, which features 20 skaters. The latest one is Alex Ovechkin, who reached the milestone on Mar. 12, 2018. Interestingly, the Washington Capitals captain has scored 268 more goals since then and is now within 26 goals of Wayne Gretzky (894). 

Pittsburgh's next game is Friday night at PPG Paints Arena against the Winnipeg Jets. By then, Crosby will be sitting on 599 goals for six days, slightly longer than the average player to score their next goal to reach 600. 

According to data collected from Stathead through Hockey Reference, the average time it took a member of the 600-goal club to score No. 599 and then No. 600 was five days and two games. 

Of course, that is average, with the majority achieving the feat earlier, while a hockey legend went an entire two weeks before scoring a single goal. Here's the rundown of the data, indicating that someone of Crosby's skills should light the lamp on Friday or Saturday against the Utah Hockey Club.

After 21 games this season, Crosby has already had goal droughts of four, five, and six games. Ultimately, those wouldn't come close to the marks set by Kurri, Andreychuk, and Howe, but they would move the Penguins sniper down the list of fastest players to score their 599th and 600th goals. 

If he doesn't succeed during the back-to-back contests on Friday and Saturday, his next opportunity will come on Wednesday, Nov. 27 against the Vancouver Canucks.