It looks like sidney Crosby woke up one day and looked at the point leaders and saw that second year player Steven Stamkos was running away with it early. Then Sidney Crosby started his point steak which is now @ 21 games with 21 goals and 21 assists for 42 points over this point streak with 2 hats, 5 multi-goal games, 14 multi-assists games. During the streak the Pittsburgh Penquins went on a 12-game winning streak and Sidney Crosby carried the team and a point in every game the Penquins since November 5Th which is over a month and a half and if it lasts til New Years day and the outdoor classic it would be an even bigger story as it is the one hockey game the Americans watch ever year.
The record is Wayne Gretzky's 51 game point streak (61G-92A-153P) and these totals would be an all world season and he put up all these points in 51 games and had 52 in his last 23 games in the 1983-84 season and Crosby would need 10 points in his next 2 games to match these totals.
I think Crosby is on a really great point streak but looking at the Gretzky's point streak it quite noticable that in the last quarter of a century the style of hockey has gone from a wide open game to a much more defensive game and in the end I beleave that nobody will come close to matching Gretzky streak until hockey goes back wide open hockey style.
Go Sidney Go
Tom Mehegan
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