ST. LOUIS -- As milestones go, Sidney Crosby will have many more momentous than the 400th goal he finally, finally, scored Sunday in the Penguins' 4-1 flattening of the Blues at Scottrade Center.
But he won't have many that are more characteristic.
Not in the sense that this team-first captain whom Mike Babcock once famously labeled "a serial winner" came through in the clutch, tying the score in the second period 21 seconds after St. Louis had struck first.
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Certainly not in the sense that, well ...
"It's a typical Crosby goal," as Mike Sullivan would observe later with the smile of a proud papa. "He scores more goals from below the goal line than I've ever seen. He's one of the few guys who thinks the game at such a high level, to make the types of plays he makes from down there. That's what I thought when it went in. It doesn't surprise me. Some people might think it's a fluke. It's not a fluke. Because I've seen it so many times."
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