Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby has scored twice in back-to-back games for the seventh time in his career.
The Pittsburgh Penguins have had their fair share of struggles to start the 2024-25 season.
After being at the bottom of the Metropolitan Division and coming home from a winless road trip, captain Sidney Crosby acknowledged that even his game wasn't at the level he expected.
Even though the 37-year-old seemed to have had a quiet (one-goal) start to the campaign, he went into Thursday's game against the Anaheim Ducks with ten points in eleven games.
Ultimately, fans wondered why he wasn't scoring despite being on the cusp of 600 goals. However, the narrative changed when he registered two goals against the Ducks, including the game-winner in overtime, bumping his goal total to three.
On Saturday night, he tallied the Penguins first two goals for his seventh career consecutive multi-goal game. The game against Montreal marks the first time he's achieved the feat since April 2024.
Here's a breakdown of his consecutive multi-goal games in his career:
- Apr. 1-2, 2024: two games, four goals, five points
- Mar. 17-19. 2017: two games, five goals, six points
- Nov. 3-5, 2016: two games, four goals, four points
- Dec. 2-4, 2010: two games, five goals, five points
- Nov. 28-Dec. 3, 2009: three games, seven goals, 11 points
- Nov. 28-29, 2009: two games, five goals, six points
After Saturday night, Crosby trails only Jaromir Jagr by two for players with the most consecutive multi-goal games in Penguins history.
- Mario Lemieux (23)
- Jaromir Jagr (Nine)
- Sidney Crosby (Seven)
- Evgeni Malkin (Five)
- Alex Kovalev (Five)
- Kevin Stevens (Five)
Overall, 38 players scored multiple goals in consecutive games, with Lemieux holding the franchise record with five games, which started on Oct. 15, 1988, and ended on Oct. 25, 1998.
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