Sidney Crosby became Pittsburgh’s career leader in combined regular-season and playoff points by scoring one of his team’s three goals spanning 3:08 of the second period, and the host Penguins topped the Vancouver Canucks 5-1 on Tuesday.

Crosby collected his 1,896th combined point, surpassing fellow Penguins legend Mario Lemieux for the most in club history. It was also Crosby’s 700th regular-season and playoff goal. Pittsburgh’s Kris Letang achieved a milestone, too, recording two assists to reach 600 for his career.

Justin Brazeau added a goal and two assists, Anthony Mantha logged a goal and an assist and Thomas Novak and Connor Dewar also scored for the Penguins, who have won three in a row. Arturs Silovs made 23 saves for the victory.

Conor Garland scored for Vancouver, which fell

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