First, MacKinnon was drilled in the chin area by Crinon and was down on the ice for a few seconds. He wasn\u2019t happy and admitted he was still mad about it on his next shift.<\/p>\n
So was Wilson, who engaged with Crinon in front of the French net before punches started flying, earning each a game misconduct.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think when guys wear the same jersey as Tom, he\u2019s going to play for you and it takes a special person to do that,\u201d MacKinnon said.<\/p>\n
MacKinnon, of course, does not wear the same jersey as Wilson during the NHL regular season. He plays for the Colorado Avalanche and Wilson, one of the most physical players in the NHL, is on the Washington Capitals. Sticking up for each other is what makes the Olympics so unique, Crosby said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s one of the special parts when you get opportunities like this,\u201d Crosby said. \u201cYou see just how close the team gets, how guys come together and how much they understand as soon as you put this jersey on, regardless of where you played before or what\u2019s happened in the past, you\u2019re in it together.\u201d<\/p>\n
They may be even closer after Sunday, which could spell bad news for the rest of the gold-medal hopefuls here.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a big part of what we\u2019re all about,\u201d Canada coach Jon Cooper said. \u201cThese guys would go through a wall for each other, and it\u2019s fun to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n
NOTES: McDavid has nine points (two goals, seven assists) at the 2026 Games, passing Jonathan Toews (eight in 2010) for the most by a Canada player at an Olympic tournament with NHL players. He also set the record for most points through the first three games of an Olympics with NHL players. \u2026 Crosby has 15 career points (six goals, nine assists) in the Olympics, passing Jarome Ignila (10 goals, four assists) for the most by a Canada player in Olympics involving NHL players. \u2026 The only other players to score on a penalty shot at an Olympics with NHL players are Team Kazakhstan\u2019s Evgeny Koreshkov (Feb. 21, 2006) and Team Latvia\u2019s Andrejs Maticins (Feb. 14, 2002). \u2026 Canada\u2019s 10 goals were the second most by one team in a game in an Olympics with NHL players; the record was set Saturday in Team Finland\u2019s 11-0 win against Team Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First, MacKinnon was drilled in the chin area by Crinon and was down on the ice for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-477295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}