- Crosby, Malkin and Letang now have more regular-season wins together than any trio ever
- The Sharks trio they passed spent 13 seasons together in San Jose
- Read below for the graphic, Malkin’s goal and the career numbers
Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang own another NHL record.
Pittsburgh’s 7-0 rout of the Flyers on Wednesday was the trio’s 494th regular-season win together, the most by any three teammates in league history. They passed Joe Thornton, Joe Pavelski and Marc-Edouard Vlasic, who piled up 493 wins as Sharks teammates between 2006 and 2019.
The NHL shared the Penguins’ graphic marking the moment:
All three had a hand in the opener. Letang set up Nick Robertson’s tip-in for the first goal, with Crosby grabbing the secondary assist on the same night he started his record 20th season as Pittsburgh’s captain.
Malkin got his own on the power play in the second period, finishing a give-and-go with Hendrix Lapierre to make it 3-0. Take a look at the one-timer:
Crosby was asked about the team’s effort after the game.
“Just a good start on the road,” Crosby said. “I thought we just had the right mentality coming into the game. It’s the first game, I don’t think anyone expects it to be perfect, but I thought we just had a good work ethic and led with that, and then things just kind of took care of themselves.”
Revenge was on the table too. Philadelphia knocked Pittsburgh out in six games in the first round last spring, and Arturs Silovs stopped all 19 shots to make sure there was no drama this time.
They have been teammates since 2006-07. Last season they became the first trio in NHL history to play 20 seasons together, and the run includes four trips to the Stanley Cup Final and championships in 2009, 2016 and 2017.
Individual numbers are just as wild. Crosby, 39, has 1,762 points in 1,421 regular-season games. Malkin, 40, has 1,403 points in 1,270 games, while Letang, 39, sits at 807 points in 1,236 games.
Every win from here adds to the record. Malkin is playing out another one-year deal, so nobody knows how many more the Penguins’ big three will get together.
