Jordan Staal scored seven short-handed goals as a rookie in 2006-07. Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin have seven, too.
Combined.
Staal needed 81 games. Crosby and Malkin have played in a total of 1,214.
Staal got so many goals while the Penguins were down a man because he was big and powerful and fearless. And it didn’t hurt that he logged just less than 246 minutes of short-handed work that season.
That might be more than Crosby and Malkin, together, have spent killing penalties in their NHL careers.
Crosby played an average of 22 seconds per game while the Penguins were down a man in 2014-15; Malkin averaged all of five seconds.