Sidney Crosby was always going to score his 500th career NHL goal on Tuesday.
Why? Because the Pittsburgh Penguins were playing the Philadelphia Flyers and the universe is always looking to create cosmic harmony. On Tuesday, Crosby got his 500th career NHL goal, marking a historic milestone for one of the best hockey players to ever play the game.
It was an inevitable landmark for Crosby to hit, hitting the 500 mark in 1,077 games played across his 17-year NHL career. And of course it was always going to come against the Flyers, the Penguins’ long-time cross-state rival with a dated history of bad blood between the two.
