Sidney Crosby’s most famous overtime goal was not an NHL goal. It came 7:40 into overtime at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, and it won Canada the gold medal.
In the NHL, Sidney Crosby has scored 25 regular-season overtime goals, second on the all-time list. In 186 playoff games he has scored one. Yes, ONE.
What was Sidney Crosby’s Olympic overtime goal?
The golden goal, on 28 February 2010 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver. Crosby took a feed from Jarome Iginla and beat Ryan Miller 7:40 into overtime to give Canada a 3-2 win over the United States and the Olympic title on home ice.
Crosby did not watch it go in. “I didn’t see it go in. I just heard the screams,” he told NHL.com on the tenth anniversary. “The feeling is hard to describe.”
Sixteen years later Crosby was inside another Olympic gold medal game that went to overtime, and outside the overtime itself. Canada reached the final in Milano-Cortina at 5-0, having needed overtime to get past Czechia in the quarterfinal. Crosby was injured in that quarterfinal, missed the semifinal against Finland, and was not in the lineup for the final on 22 February 2026. The United States won it 2-1, on a Jack Hughes goal 1:41 into overtime. Canada took silver.
Who has the most overtime goals in NHL history?
Alex Ovechkin, with 27. Crosby is second with 25.
| Player | Overtime goals |
|---|---|
| Alex Ovechkin | 27 |
| Sidney Crosby | 25 |
| Brad Marchand | 22 |
| Leon Draisaitl | 20 |
| John Tavares | 20 |
All figures are through the 2025-26 season and the 2026 playoffs.
The list is also much younger than it looks. At the end of 2014-15 the record belonged to Jaromir Jagr with 19 overtime goals, a total that would rank sixth on the table above. Five players have passed it in the decade since, and the reason is a rule change rather than a generation of better finishers.
How many overtime points does Sidney Crosby have?
50 in the regular season, split exactly down the middle: 25 goals and 25 assists. That total puts Crosby level with Connor McDavid at the top of the all-time list.
The split is the interesting part. Ovechkin’s 41 overtime points are 27 goals and 14 assists. The two most-discussed players of the era arrive at three-on-three with opposite instincts, and it shows in the raw totals rather than in anything anyone says about them.
How many playoff overtime goals does Sidney Crosby have?
One, in 186 playoff games across 21 seasons and three Stanley Cups.
That leaves Crosby level with Ovechkin, who has played 25 fewer playoff games, and behind Patrice Bergeron on 4, and Evgeni Malkin, Jonathan Toews and McDavid on 2 each. Malkin has twice as many as Crosby in three fewer playoff games, on the same teams, in the same overtimes. The all-time leaders are Joe Sakic with 8 and Maurice Richard with 6.
The one came in Game 2 of the 2016 Eastern Conference Final against Tampa Bay, on 16 May 2016 at home. Crosby scored 40 seconds into overtime, a wrist shot past Andrei Vasilevskiy off a drop pass from Bryan Rust, to win it 3-2 and level the series. It was his 113th playoff game and it ended an eight-game goal drought that had run through the entire Washington series. Pittsburgh won the Cup that year.
Crosby has been in the lineup for 37 playoff games that went to overtime. Pittsburgh’s record in them is 15-22. The most recent was a 1-0 loss to Philadelphia in late April 2026 that ended the season on a Cam York goal.
Does Sidney Crosby set up overtime goals?
This is where the record turns over. Crosby has six playoff overtime assists to go with the single goal. Crosby has factored in 7 of the 15 playoff overtime games Pittsburgh has won during his career, which is very nearly half of them.
| Date | Game | Crosby |
|---|---|---|
| 4 May 2008 | Round 2, Game 5 vs the Rangers | assist on Marian Hossa’s series-clinching winner |
| 6 May 2009 | Round 2, Game 3 vs Washington | assist on Kris Letang |
| 5 May 2013 | Round 1, Game 3 at the Islanders | assist on Chris Kunitz |
| 16 May 2016 | Conference Final, Game 2 vs Tampa Bay | scored |
| 1 June 2016 | Stanley Cup Final, Game 2 vs San Jose | assist on Conor Sheary |
| 16 April 2017 | Round 1, Game 3 at Columbus | sole assist on Jake Guentzel’s winner |
| 25 May 2017 | Conference Final, Game 7 vs Ottawa | assist on Kunitz’s double-overtime winner |
Two of those are Cup Final or Game 7 winners. In the 2017 run Crosby assisted on both of Pittsburgh’s playoff overtime winners without scoring either.
Crosby’s own account of the Sheary goal is a fair summary of how he treats the whole category. “I call [24] faceoffs a game, so I got [23] wrong tonight. It’s one of those things; guys have to execute, you have to make the pass. That’s exactly what they did.”
Is Sidney Crosby’s overtime record a product of three-on-three?
Substantially, yes, and it is the part of the record nobody checks. Three-on-three overtime arrived in 2015-16 and multiplied the chances. Crosby’s goals sit heavily on one side of that line.
| Player | Before 3-on-3 | 3-on-3 era | Total | Share in 3-on-3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Ovechkin | 15 | 12 | 27 | 44% |
| Sidney Crosby | 7 | 18 | 25 | 72% |
| Brad Marchand | 4 | 18 | 22 | 82% |
| Leon Draisaitl | 0 | 20 | 20 | 100% |
| John Tavares | 8 | 12 | 20 | 60% |
Crosby scored 7 overtime goals in his first ten seasons and 18 in his last eleven. His rate went from one per 90 games to one per 44, roughly doubling the season the format changed.
Ovechkin is the exception, and it is the strongest argument in his favour on this list. Ovechkin’s overtime rate went down under three-on-three, from one per 51 games to one per 68. He was already third all-time before the rule changed. Crosby, at that point, had seven and was nowhere near the list.
