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Sidney Crosby

The most career points and the most career assists of anybody in this edition, and 42 goals in his nineteenth season.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2005-06	PIT	81	39	63	102	-1	110	16	0	5	278	14.0	20:08
2006-07	PIT	79	36	84	120	+10	60	13	0	4	250	14.4	20:46
2007-08	PIT	53	24	48	72	+18	39	6	0	4	173	13.9	20:51
2008-09	PIT	77	33	70	103	+3	76	7	0	3	238	13.9	21:57
2009-10	PIT	81	51	58	109	+15	71	13	2	6	298	17.1	21:57
2010-11	PIT	41	32	34	66	+20	31	10	1	3	161	19.9	21:55
2011-12	PIT	22	8	29	37	+15	14	2	0	3	75	10.7	18:28
2012-13	PIT	36	15	41	56	+26	16	3	0	1	124	12.1	21:06
2013-14	PIT	80	36	68	104	+18	46	11	0	5	259	13.9	21:58
2014-15	PIT	77	28	56	84	+5	47	10	0	3	237	11.8	19:58
2015-16	PIT	80	36	49	85	+19	42	10	0	9	248	14.5	20:28
2016-17	PIT	75	44	45	89	+17	24	14	0	5	255	17.3	19:53
2017-18	PIT	82	29	60	89	0	46	9	0	6	247	11.7	20:41
2018-19	PIT	79	35	65	100	+18	36	12	0	3	220	15.9	21:00
2019-20	PIT	41	16	31	47	-8	15	4	0	4	109	14.7	20:16
2020-21	PIT	55	24	38	62	+8	26	5	1	5	159	15.1	20:24
2021-22	PIT	69	31	53	84	+19	32	8	0	9	208	14.9	19:58
2022-23	PIT	82	33	60	93	+8	52	9	0	9	255	12.9	20:09
2023-24	PIT	82	42	52	94	+7	40	10	0	3	278	15.1	20:05
2024-25 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1272	592	1004	1596	+217	823	172	4	90	4072	14.5	20:41

This Season So Far

The 2024-25 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

82 games, 42 goals and 52 assists for 94 points, 10 on the power play, 40 penalty minutes, 20:05 a night and plus-7, with 3 game-winners. He took 53.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,256 minutes, the 82nd percentile, and his ice went 78-74 against an expectation of 71.92-61.40.

Six goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and twelve and a half more conceded than they called for — the worst goaltending figure of anybody on the club, behind the best player on it. Forty-two goals is the most of any player 35 or older in this edition, and eleven more than the next man.

The Finesse Game

388 attempts at a median of 22 feet with 43 per cent of them from inside twenty, 271 of those on goal, converted at 15.1 per cent against a career 14.54 across 4,072 shots.

1,004 career assists, and he is the only man in this edition past a thousand. He wins pucks below the goal line and protects them with his back to pressure, and the passing out of that position is still the best part of him. Forty-three per cent of his attempts from inside twenty feet at 37 is a centre who has not moved his office an inch in nineteen years.

The Physical Game

He is 5-11 and 200 and took 40 penalty minutes.

823 career penalty minutes in 1,272 games is an ordinary rate for a man who has spent two decades being cross-checked in the slot. He is thickly built through the legs and almost impossible to knock off a puck, which is the physical quality the rest of his game rests on.

The Intangibles

First overall in 2005, nineteen seasons, all of them in Pittsburgh, and 1,596 points in 1,272 games — the most of anybody in this edition.

A career plus-217, third in the edition behind Brad Marchand and Ryan McDonagh. He is the captain here, and 42 goals at this age is the argument that the club is not obliged to start over yet.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

hard-shot· beats a goaltender from range
5 of 65 attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 7.7%, 93rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.21) · 16% keep it
durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
workhorse· carries the load at even strength
15:19 a game at five-on-five, 95th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
sheltered· is started in the attacking end
63% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 95th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
playmakera strength· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“1,004 career assists, and he is the only man in this edition past a thousand.”
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“Forty-three per cent of his attempts from inside twenty feet at 37 is a centre who has not moved his office an inch in nineteen years.”
hard-to-movea strength· cannot be shifted from where he decides to stand
“He is thickly built through the legs and almost impossible to knock off a puck, which is the physical quality the rest of his game rests on.”
leadershipa strength· the room, and who holds it
“He is the captain here, and 42 goals at this age is the argument that the club is not obliged to start over yet.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,256 minutes

Expected goals: 53.9%; 82nd pct
Shot attempts: 55.1%; 90th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 78 for, 74 against. Expected: 71.9 and 61.4.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

100th

Numbers

82nd

The two rank him within 18 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.

Both bars are percentiles among the 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 88 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2023-24 · 82 games

Top speed: 22.9 mph; 83rd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 2.30 a game
Distance: 3.26 miles a game
Hardest shot: 90.8 mph; 75th pct

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Usual linemates

2023-24 · 1256 minutes at five-on-five

Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.

Why the numbers land there

Five-on-five, 2023-24

The club: PIT took 51.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.9% — 2.8 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 1,256 minutes at five-on-five — 87th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Bryan Rust	54.3%	53.5%	48.3%
Jake Guentzel	57.2%	49.1%	57.1%
Kris Letang	54.1%	53.8%	45.9%

54.3% together, 53.5% for him apart and 48.3% for Rust apart. Rust was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Rust than for him.

Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

388 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 43 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 44% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.