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Originally Posted by getbak
It looks like Crosby scored his 500th in his 369th career game.
Tonight is McAvi's 369th career game and he currently sits at 499 career points.
Crosby had 4 points that night and ended the game with 501 points, which means he had 497 points through 368 games. So Connor is ahead of him... if you ignore the Stanley Cup and Olympic gold medal GWG that Crosby also had at that point in his career.
EDIT: Also, in that same time, Crosby had 63 points in 49 playoff games. McAvi has 18 points in 17 playoff games.
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It is eerie that both of them are within two points of one another this late into their careers.
I won't be surprised to see McAvi quickly overtake Crosby moving forward. Crosby worked his ass off to reinvent and improve his game year after year; to become the best, most complete player in the world, and it required big sacrifices on the offensive side of the puck. McAvi and the Oilers don't seem to care much about anything beyond sick dangles and crossovers. Hell, I am betting that Crosby would have gotten to 500 a lot quicker if he was only interested in making hilight-reel plays all those years.
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