{"id":496925,"date":"2026-02-22T14:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496925\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T14:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:28:08","slug":"crosby-out-for-canada-against-united-states-in-olympic-gold-medal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496925\/","title":{"rendered":"Crosby out for Canada against United States in Olympic gold medal game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/sidney-crosby-8471675\" title=\"Sidney Crosby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sidney Crosby<\/a> will not play for Team Canada in the gold medal game against Team USA at Santagiulia Arena on Sunday (8:10 a.m. ET; Peacock, NBC, ICI Tele, CBC Gem, CBC, SN [JIP], TSN [JIP], RDS).<\/p>\n<p>Crosby, Team Canada&#8217;s captain, will miss his second game with a lower-body injury he sustained in second period of the quarterfinals against Team Czechia on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He also did not play in Canada\u2019s 3-2 win against Team Finland in the semifinals on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Canada will use the same lineup as it did against Finland, with Crosby and defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/josh-morrissey-8477504\" title=\"Josh Morrissey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Morrissey<\/a>, who is out with an undisclosed injury, the two skater scratches along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/darcy-kuemper-8475311\" title=\"Darcy Kuemper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darcy Kuemper<\/a>, who is the third goalie.<\/p>\n<p>There was optimism around Team Canada that Crosby would be able to return for the gold medal game after he skated in Canada\u2019s optional practice Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Following practice, coach Jon Cooper said he would meet with Crosby and a determination on his availability for the game would be made Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe won&#8217;t put himself in harm&#8217;s way,\u201d Cooper said. \u201cHe&#8217;s not going to put the team in harm&#8217;s way.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN &#8212; Sidney Crosby will not play for Team Canada in the gold medal game against Team USA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-496925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}