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Last update: October 29, 2007 - 9:10 PM

SIDNEY CROSBY

Age: 20 (Aug. 7, 1987 in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia).

Ht.: 5-11; Wt.: 200

Position: center

Drafted: first overall, 2005

2007-08 stats: four goals, nine assists, 13 points, 10 games.

Accolades

• Four months before his 20th birthday, Crosby finished the 2006-07 season as the first teenager in major pro team sports history to win a scoring title, scoring 120 points (36 goals, 84 assists).

• Became the seventh player in NHL history to win the Hart Trophy (MVP), Art Ross Trophy (leading scorer) and Lester Pearson Trophy (Outstanding Player as voted by NHLPA members) in the same season.

• As an 18-year-old rookie, he broke Mario Lemieux's Penguins rookie records with 63 assists and 102 points, the youngest player in NHL history to hit 100 points.

• Named Penguins captain on May 31, 2007, the youngest captain in NHL history (Brian Bellows was younger when the North Stars named him captain in 1984 to replace an injured Craig Hartsburg, but that was only temporary).

• Youngest player in NHL history to hit 200 points (19 years, 207 days).

• Youngest player to be voted to an NHL All-Star Game (2007).

EVGENI MALKIN

Age: 21 (July 31, 1986 in Magnitogorsk, Russia)

Ht.: 6-3; Wt.: 195

Position: center/right wing

Drafted: second overall, 2004

2007-08 stats: three goals, 10 assists, 13 points, 10 games.

Accolades

• As a rookie last season, Malkin became the first player in 89 years to score goals in each of his first six games.

• Led all rookies in goals (33), power-play goals (16), assists (52) and points (85).

• Calder Trophy winner (Rookie of the Year), 2006-07.

JORDAN STAAL

Age: 19 (Sept. 10, 1988 in Thunder Bay, Ontario)

Ht.: 6-4; Wt.: 220

Position: center/left wing

Drafted: second overall, 2006

2007-08 stats: one goal, one assist, two points, 10 games.

Accolades

• Brother of Carolina's Eric Staal and the Rangers' Mark Staal, Jordan set an NHL rookie record last season with seven shorthanded goals.

• Tied for second among rookie goal-scorers with 29 and led the Penguins in plus-minus (plus-16).

RYAN WHITNEY

Age: 24 (Feb. 19, 1983 in Boston)

Ht.: 6-4; Wt.: 219

Position: defense

Drafted: fifth overall, 2002

2007-08 stats: three goals, three assists, six points, 10 games.

Accolades

• Recorded career-highs last season with 14 goals, 45 assists and 59 points (sixth in scoring among defensemen) in second NHL season.

• Nine of his goals and 33 of his points came on the power play.

MARC-ANDRE FLEURY

Age: 22 (Nov. 28, 1984 in Sorel, Quebec)

Ht.: 6-2; Wt.: 180

Position: goalie

Drafted: first overall, 2003

2007-08 stats: 4-4, 3.50 goals-against average, .892 save percentage, nine games.

ACCOLADES

• Had breakout season in 2006-07, tying for third among NHL goalies with 40 victories, marking the second-highest total in franchise history behind Tom Barrasso's 43 in 1992-93.

• Over one 14-game stretch, Fleury was unbeaten in regulation (12-0-2).

MICHAEL RUSSO

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