FINAL - Sidney Crosby scored 1:38 into OT as the Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Buffalo Sabres, 6-5. Evgeni Malkin scored his 500th career goal.

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The number of points in Sidney Crosby’s NHL career
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Number of consecutive games played by Crosby, the current Pens’ Iron Man
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Number of goals scored by Evgeni Malkin in his NHL career
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The number of Pens players to score 500th goal in Penguins uniform. Lemieux, Mullen, Recchi, Crosby & Malkin

2nd in Metro Division – 3rd in Eastern Conference – 9th in NHL

(3-2-0 = 6 points)

Pittsburgh Hockey History Made on October 17th...

1914 - Pittsburgh Hornets' Bill Gauf was born.
1929 - Pittsburgh Hornets' Bo Elik was born.
1970 - Les Binkley recorded his tenth career shutout in a game against the Philadelphia Flyers. Bernie Parent earned a shutout too, 0-0.
1972 - Ken Schinkel beat goaltender Gerry Gray, playing his eighth and final NHL game, just 35 seconds in, and Pittsburgh left the first period with that 1-0 lead despite outshooting the Islanders, 11-5. Ron Schock picked up his second assist when he set up Eddie Shack's goal at 14:02 of the second period, and Syl Apps made it 3-0, set up by Jean Pronovost and Dave Burrows, at 19:24 for a 3-0 lead. If there was any doubt about the outcome of the game, it was erased when Pronovost scored at 3:18 of the final period, and Schock's third assist of the game came on Schinkel's power-play goal at 14:00 with Jim Mair in the penalty box. The Penguins earned a 5-0 victory, and Denis Herron stopped 24 shots for his first National Hockey League shutout.
1984 - Mario Lemieux played his first home game ever for the Penguins, a 4-3 win over Vancouver in which Lemieux set up a goal on his first shift and engaged the Canucks' Gary Lupul in a fight.
1986 - Mario Lemieux scored his second career hat trick after beating Buffalo Sabres goalie Tom Barrasso.
1989 - Mario Lemieux scored into an empty net against Toronto, for his 22nd career hat trick.
1991 - Bob Errey scored his only hat trick and Paul Coffey recorded his 1,053rd career point in a game against the New York Islanders. Coffey became the NHL's All-Time leading scorer among defensemen, passing Denis Potvin. Coffey finished his career with 1,531 points only to be surpassed by Ray Bourque in 2000-01.
1992 - Kevin Stevens collected his seventh career hat trick, in a game against the Hartford Whalers.
1999 - Former Hornets player Hugh Bolton died.
2011 - Winnipeg Jets' Kyle Wellwood scored :08 seconds into the game to establish a new record for a goal from the start of a game. The previous record was :09 seconds by Philadelphia's Ross Lonsberry on October 20, 1977.
2015 - Pens goalie Marc-Andre Fleury became the 45th NHL goaltender to appear in 600 games.
2024-25 Pittsburgh Penguins

2024-25 Pittsburgh Penguins

Skater Stats Regular Season
# NAME POS GP G A P PIM
71 Evgeni Malkin C 5 2 9 11 0
87 Sidney Crosby C 5 1 5 6 2
65 Erik Karlsson D 5 1 3 4
28 Marcus Pettersson D 5 1 2 3 6
18 Jesse Puljujarvi RW 4 1 2 3 2
58 Kris Letang D 5 2 1 3 4
20 Lars Eller C 5 2 1 3 4
10 Drew O'Connor LW 5 2 1 3 2
67 Rickard Rakell RW 5 3 0 3 0
72 Anthony Beauvillier LW 5 2 0 2 0
24 Matt Grzelcyk D 5 0 2 2 2
13 Kevin Hayes RW 5 2 0 2 0
55 Noel Acciari C 5 0 2 2 2
17 Bryan Rust RW 3 1 1 2 2
8 Michael Bunting LW 5 0 1 1 0
19 Cody Glass C 5 0 1 1 2
2 Rutger McGroarty RW 3 0 0 0 0
3 Jack St. Ivany D 4 0 0 0 2
5 Ryan Shea D 1 0 0 0 0
27 Ryan Graves D 5 0 0 0 2
48 Valtteri Puustinen RW
46 Blake Lizotte C
83 Matt Nieto LW
Goalie Stats
# NAME GP W L T OTL SOL Min GA SO GAA G A P PIM
35 Tristan Jarry 3 1 1 0 0 131 12 0 5.50 0 0 0 0
39 Alex Nedeljkovic -- 0
30 Joel Blomqvist 3 2 1 0 0 168 8 0 2.86 0 0 0 0

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