Crosby breaks Lemieux mark

Toronto ended Pittsburgh's season on a losing note.
TORONTO -- Matts Sundin finished off the season playing like one of the NHL's top centers.
The 35-year-old capped his best offensive season since 2002 with two goals and two assists, and the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-3 on Tuesday night.
Sundin finished with 78 points (31 goals and 47 assists) in 70 games, his best since he got 80 points in 82 games in 2001-02.
Not bad for a guy who missed a dozen games at the start of the season after fracturing the orbital bone over his left eye.
"He's a wonderful athlete," Toronto head coach Pat Quinn said.
"I know people had questions about him early on but he came off a year [lockout] when he didn't do much. For most athletes, it takes a while."
Sundin ended the year with 25 points (14-11) in his last 13 games.
"He was terrific down the stretch for us," Quinn said. "And not just points-wise, but sound defensively as well. To me he's got lots of hockey left in him."
Darcy Tucker added his 28th goal, a career high, while AHL call-ups John Pohl and Jeremy Williams also scored for the Maple Leafs, who finished the season ninth in the Eastern Conference with a 90 points.
Williams scored his first NHL goal in his first game.
"I was skating by the bench and everybody yelled 'shoot' so that's what I did," Williams said.
"What a nerve-racking day. I woke up three times during my pre-game nap.
"But at least my first NHL goal was a nice one, it didn't go off someone's shin pad."
Milestone
Sidney Crosby scored his 39th goal and added an assist to give him 102 points in a sensational rookie season while Ryan Malone and Colby Armstrong also scored for the Penguins, who finished last in the East.
"One hundred points would be one [of the highlights]," Crosby said of his rookie year. "After the Olympic break it was a lot of fun playing with this group. We weren't winning as much, but I can't see other teams in the same situation reacting the way we did."
Crosby broke Mario Lemieux's team record for points by a rookie. Lemieux had 100 points in 1984-85.
"It's an accomplishment, for sure," Crosby said.
"Just to be mentioned [with Lemieux] is an honor."
Sundin's slapshot from the sideboards was deflected by Pohl at 8:19 of the first period to open the scoring.
Alex Steen then fed Sundin with a nice cross-ice pass to make it 2-0 at 15:20.
Sundin's tap-in gave Toronto a 3-0 lead 3:46 into the second period, Tucker put in his own rebound at 7:16 on a power play and it was 4-0, before Williams came screaming down the ice on a 2-on-1 and ripped a slapshot past a shaky Sebastien Caron at 8:13.
That was it for Caron, who was replaced by Marc-Andre Fleury.
That seemed to spark the Penguins, who rallied.
First Crosby one-timed a shot at the side of the net to make it 5-1 just 27 seconds after Williams' goal.
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