How much longer will Sidney Crosby play?

It was a great weekend for Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins, as back-to-back thrashings of the Florida Panthers on Saturday and Sunday virtually assured them of a spot in the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

On Saturday, Crosby passed Steve Yzerman for seventh in points in NHL history, and on Sunday, he became the first player in league history to record 21 consecutive point-per-game seasons.

With 72 points in 66 games in his age-38 season, Crosby is showing no signs of slowing down, and at 1,759 points, he’s a few more strong seasons away from joining Wayne Gretzky as the only players in NHL history to reach 2,000 points.

On Monday’s episode of Daily Faceoff LIVE, host Tyler Yaremchuk and co-host and former NHL goaltender Carter Hutton discussed what Crosby’s career could look like from a longevity standpoint, especially with the 2,000-point threshold in play if he keeps going.

Tyler Yaremchuk: There was a three-year run where he only played 99 regular season games… Kind of the next push here for Sidney Crosby is going to be how long can he go? And does he want to try to push to be the second player to ever get 2,000 points? He’s at 1,759 as it stands right now. You kind of do some back-of-the-napkin math, he needs 241 more points. If he can keep being a point-per-game guy, like, 38 years old, does Sid want to play until he’s 40, 41? Can he get you three more years of 80 points a season? If he’s 10 points away, does he come back for an age-42 season to try to get to 2,000 points? I’d be very curious. A guy who’s obviously won so much, defining player of his generation, gold medals, Stanley Cups, all that stuff. Does he have four more years in him, Hutts?

Carter Hutton: Yeah, I don’t know. I guess maybe with the way that he takes care of himself, and then it just depends on where his role is. If he can still be productive, and maybe you can start to drop his minutes, because he’s still playing 19 minutes per night… Imagine if he just accepts being on the third or fourth line and playing minimal minutes because he loves the game so much. Then it starts to become possible… he can still play the power play and be controlled. I think it will be up to him… but like the factor of the game will be how long does he personally want to play for? I feel like the Pens’ organization will do whatever they need to make sure that Sidney Crosby is happy and in a good situation where he still can succeed.

You can watch the full segment and the rest of the episode below…