Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin have spent the past 13 seasons creating a legacy as one of the greatest duos in National Hockey League history. They’ve won three Stanley Cups, been named the MVP of both the regular season and the playoffs, and they rank among the all-time scorers in the game. Last week, Malkin joined Crosby as two of just 88 players in league history to record 1,000 career points. They are one of just four duos to both record 1,000 points while skating alongside one another. Fittingly, they both had 110 different players factor into each of their first 1,000 points, with 81 players crossing over onto both lists.
Listed in alphabetical order below are the 81 players who factored into both players’ first 1000 NHL points:
No. First Last Factor into 71 Factor into 87 No. First Last Factor into 71 Factor into 87 1 Craig Adams 3 9 42 Kris Letang 136 160 2 Colby Armstrong 8 47 43 Mark Letestu 1 2 3 Arron Asham 4 2 44 Ben Lovejoy 5 5 4 Beau Bennett 5 10 45 Olli Maatta 27 14 5 Robert Bortuzzo 2 5 46 Ryan Malone 26 38 6 Philippe Boucher 4 3 47 Paul Martin 26 28 7 Luca Caputi 2 1 48 Jayson Megna 2 2 8 Erik Christensen 8 13 49 Josef Melichar 2 12 9 Ian Cole 13 8 50 Zbynek Michalek 2 4 10 Blake Comeau 17 1 51 Alain Nasreddine 1 1 11 Mike Comrie 4 1 52 James Neal 106 35 12 Matt Cooke 14 15 53 Matt Niskanen 22 21 13 Matt Cullen 3 1 54 Brooks Orpik 20 36 14 Trevor Daley 11 7 55 Michel Ouellet 22 20 15 Simon Despres 8 4 56 David Perron 7 17 16 Steve Downie 3 6 57 Alexei Ponikarovsky 2 5 17 Brian Dumoulin 7 10 58 Derrick Pouliot 2 4 18 Pascal Dupuis 17 93 59 Mark Recchi 18 68 19 Mark Eaton 6 14 60 Gary Roberts 3 5 20 Christian Ehrhoff 5 6 61 Mike Rupp 7 5 21 Nils Ekman 2 5 62 Bryan Rust 16 10 22 Deryk Engelland 7 9 63 Jarkko Ruutu 2 1 23 Ruslan Fedotenko 31 14 64 Miroslav Satan 12 14 24 M-A Fleury 5 2 65 Justin Schultz 26 12 25 Brian Gibbons 1 3 66 Rob Scuderi 9 17 26 Hal Gill 2 2 67 Conor Sheary 3 25 27 Tanner Glass 2 2 68 Martin Skoula 2 2 28 Eric Godard 3 1 69 Nick Spaling 6 3 29 Alex Goligoski 34 35 70 Jordan Staal 43 17 30 Sergei Gonchar 84 116 71 Steve Sullivan 17 5 31 Jake Guentzel 15 1 72 Brandon Sutter 4 4 32 Bill Guerin 16 33 73 Darryl Sydor 4 3 33 Carl Hagelin 29 8 74 Petr Sykora 67 21 34 Patric Hornqvist 72 65 75 Max Talbot 11 12 35 Jussi Jokinen 24 14 76 Chris Thorburn 1 1 36 Tyler Kennedy 11 14 77 Joe Vitale 1 2 37 Phil Kessel 151 22 78 Ryan Whitney 43 56 38 Tom Kuhnhackl 1 1 79 Scott Wilson 2 3 39 Chris Kunitz 98 185 80 Jeff Zatkoff 1 1 40 Georges Laraque 3 1 81 Mike Zigomanis 1 1 41 Jordan Leopold 1 4