Sidney Crosby sets Canadian Olympic men’s hockey scoring record in NHL era
While it was never in doubt, Sidney Crosby has cemented himself as one of, if not the best hockey player to ever wear the red and white at the Olympics, as he has set the Canadian Olympic men’s ice hockey scoring record in the NHL era.
Sid The Kid has still got it!
Crosby breaks the record after a three-point performance in through two periods of Sunday’s game against France to give him 16 career points. Jarome Iginla was the previous holder of the record, as he had 14 points in 19 games at the 2002, 2006 and 2010 Olympics.
According to Hockey Canada and the CBC broadcast, Crosby broke the record with his goal late in the second period to make the game 6-1, but that gave him 16 career points at the Olympics. What actually would have broke the record was his assist on Cale Makar’s power play goal earlier in the period to give Canada the 4-1 lead.
Crosby also had another assist earlier in the game, as he set up Devon Toews midway through the first period to make it 2-1.
Crosby entered the 2026 Olympics with 10 points at the tournament after getting four goals, three assists and seven points in seven games in 2010 and one goal and two assists for three points in six games in 2014. He entered Sunday’s game against France with one goal and two assists for three points in two games, and needed just one point to tie the record, and two to break it.
Crosby now sits in 15th in scoring among NHL players at the Olympics. He needs another 16 points to tie Teemu Selanne’s record of 32 points, although it will be tough to beat when Selanne participated in five Olympic tournaments. This would have been Crosby’s fifth tournament had the NHL participated in 2018 and 2022, but the NHL pulled out of the 2018 tournament, and uncertainty around the COVID-19 pandemic in 2022 caused them to pull out of that tournament at the last minute.