{"id":498973,"date":"2026-02-25T17:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498973\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T17:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T17:17:11","slug":"penguins-place-sidney-crosby-on-injured-reserve-after-missing-olympic-final-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/498973\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins place Sidney Crosby on injured reserve after missing Olympic final \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH \u2013 The Pittsburgh Penguins placed Sidney Crosby on injured reserve Wednesday and said the captain is expected to miss at least a month with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Crosby was hurt at the Olympics and sat out Canada\u2019s 2-1 overtime loss to the United States in Sunday\u2019s gold-medal game in Milan, saying he couldn\u2019t play \u201cwithout compromising the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old was injured in the quarterfinals when his leg bent awkwardly on a hit from Czechia defenceman Radko Gudas.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/699f1681de59a88f65772600jpeg.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"8640\" data-pswp-height=\"5760\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/699f1681de59a88f65772600jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Canada's Sidney Crosby (87) leaves the ice after warm up before taking on Switzerland during a preliminary round men's hockey game at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Darryl Dyck\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCanada&#8217;s Sidney Crosby (87) leaves the ice after warm up before taking on Switzerland during a preliminary round men&#8217;s hockey game at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Darryl Dyck<\/p>\n<p>He watched the final from the trainer\u2019s room before joining teammates for the medal ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins also activated defenceman Kris Letang from injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tThe Warm-Up<\/p>\n<p class=\"frequency\">Winnipeg Jets Game Days<\/p>\n<p>On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"email-subscribe-link button the-warmup inline-block-logged-in\">Sign up for The Warm-Up<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/theWarm-up-tile.jpg\" alt=\"Sign up for The Warm-Up\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh hosts the New Jersey Devils on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 25, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2013 The Pittsburgh Penguins placed Sidney Crosby on injured reserve Wednesday and said the captain is expected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-498973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498973","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=498973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}