The Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby has undergone arthroscopic wrist surgery, the team announced today. The star forward has been given an expected recovery period of three-to-four weeks.
Though this is obviously not major surgery, it does suggest that Crosby was playing through injury in the team’s qualification round matchup against the Montreal Canadiens. Josh Yohe of The Athletic reports that the organization does not believe this will set Crosby back significantly, given the distant state date of the 2020-21 season.
Crosby, 33, is coming off his 15th consecutive season scoring at least a point per game. In November he underwent sports hernia surgery and missed two months of the regular season.
Looking at his stats, sometimes I forget just how great a hockey player Crosby is.
Sid has the 5th or 6th highest career points per game average all time and (until the last 2 or 3 years) spent his whole career in a dead puck era.
Second best player I’ve ever seen.
Who is first?
Mario Lemieux. Hands down.
As a Pens fan, I fully acknowledge that we have been absolutely spoiled the past few decades.
Jagr was hardly a bum, either. Geno even better. Kovalev in his prime was as fun to watch as anyone.