Sidney Crosby can cross his name off the list of elite players that never scored a playoff overtime goal.
Mario Lemieux never scored one (though Claude Lemieux had three). Gordie Howe didn’t have any (his son Mark Howe had one), nor did Mark Messier (though his teammates Petr Klima and Stephane Matteau each had two).
Crosby’s on Monday night evened the series between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Tampa Bay Lightning, 1-1 and snapped his eight-game goal scoring drought (matching his longest in a single postseason). It’s his first playoff goal since Game 4 of the first round against the Rangers.