{"id":669951,"date":"2026-05-14T23:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/669951\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T23:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:28:08","slug":"celebrini-remains-captain-for-canada-at-mens-worlds-crosby-to-wear-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/669951\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrini remains captain for Canada at men\u2019s worlds; Crosby to wear \u2018A\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Macklin Celebrini will remain as captain for Team Canada and Sidney Crosby will be an alternate captain at the world hockey championship in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Macklin Celebrini will remain captain for Canada at the Men\u2019s Worlds. In question only because Sidney Crosby joined the team late. Sid will be an assistant.  This was a decision lead by the players.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarrenDreger\/status\/2055021507051503856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Celebrini, 19, is the youngest-ever Canada captain and the youngest on the team\u2019s roster for the worlds, which open Friday in Zurich and Fribourg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In only his second NHL season, the centre set a record for the San Jose Sharks with 115 points for 45 goals and 70 assists in 82 regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Celebrini finished fourth in the league and was a finalist for the Ted Lindsay Award along with established stars Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers and Nikita Kucherov of the Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Only two teenagers have reached the 50-point mark faster in a season than Celebrini, two of the greatest players in NHL history: Crosby and Wayne Gretzky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Celebrini\u2019s performances earned him a place on a Canada team that took silver at this year\u2019s Milan Cortina Olympics..<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Celebrini and Crosby are joined by two other alternate captains, John Tavares of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Ryan O\u2019Reilly of the Nashville Predators. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The last-minute addition of Crosby for his fourth appearance at the tournament is a boost for Canada, which is hoping to rebound from a disappointing fifth-place finish last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Celebrini, the top pick in the 2024 NHL draft, was at the 2025 tournament on a team that included Crosby and Nathan MacKinnon, but the Canadians were stunned 2-1 by Denmark in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada last won the men\u2019s worlds in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macklin Celebrini will remain as captain for Team Canada and Sidney Crosby will be an alternate captain at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-669951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669951","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=669951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}