The NHL has a new King of Consistency.

With a goal in Thursday’s 7-3 loss to the Buffalo Sabres, Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby clinched his 20th point-per-game season, passing Wayne Gretzky for the most in league history.

The record-breaking tally happened just past the halfway mark of the first period, when No. 87 sniped a shot past goaltender James Reimer to cut Buffalo’s early lead in half.

The 37-year-old has 26 goals and 80 points over 72 games this season. With eight games left on Pittsburgh’s schedule, the worst Crosby can do now is 80 points in 80 games.

Through 20 seasons in the NHL, Crosby has never been below a point-per-game average in his career. Selected with the first overall pick in the 2005 draft, Sid the Kid picked up an assist in his first game in the NHL, a 5-1 loss to the New Jersey Devils, and never stopped producing.

The native of Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia scored 102 points in 81 games for the Penguins in 2005-06 as an 18-year-old, finishing second in Calder Trophy voting for the league’s top rookie. Nearly two decades, three Stanley Cups, and many trophies later, Crosby sits ninth in NHL all-time scoring with 1,676 points in 1,344 games.

Though Crosby continues to be productive late in his 30s, his team is in the midst of another lost season. The Penguins sit seventh in the Metro Division with a 29-34-11 record and they’re almost certainly going to miss the playoffs for the third consecutive year. Crosby inked a two-year extension with Pittsburgh in September that covers the 2025-26 and 2026-27 seasons.

There’s another Wayne Gretzky record chase going on right now in the NHL that’s garnered a much larger spotlight. Alex Ovechkin is only five goals back of matching The Great One for the most goals in league history with 894, a record that once seemed untouchable. The Washington Capitals have 10 games left in their season, so it’s likely we’ll see a new all-time goal leader soon.