"Forget about the 500," Kris Letang would say late Tuesday night, as if forgetting the unforgettable could've been even remotely conceivable in this setting.
No chance of that.
Not with how fantastically it all unfolded:
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I mean ... who'd dare to whip up a script like this?
Sidney Patrick Crosby's 500th NHL goal, one that put him in a class with only 45 others in hockey history, in a class with only Alexander Ovechkin among active players, in a class with only Mario Lemieux for this particular franchise .