{"id":149603,"date":"2026-03-27T00:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/149603\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T00:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:33:18","slug":"sidney-crosby-leaves-penguins-senators-game-will-not-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/149603\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Crosby leaves Penguins-Senators game, will not return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sidney Crosby left the Pittsburgh Penguins&#8217; game against the Ottawa Senators at the Canadian Tire Centre on Thursday and will not return.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins announced the news in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PenguinsPR\/status\/2037321750732562937\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\">post on X<\/a>. The team did not disclose why Crosby would not return to the game. Crosby left the ice early in the second period with the game tied 1-1. The Penguins and Senators are tied 2-2 with under 6 minutes remaining in the second frame.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crosby returned to Pittsburgh&#8217;s lineup on March 18 against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/sidney-crosby-returns-from-injury-carolina-hurricanes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> after missing four weeks due to a lower-body <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/sidney-crosby-team-canada-injury-czechia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">injury<\/a>\u00a0suffered during the Olympic tournament. He was then placed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/sidney-crosby-injury-update-pittsburgh-penguins-nhl-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">injured reserve<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the five games since returning to the lineup, Crosby has tallied five points. This season, the 38-year-old star for the Penguins has a team-high 28 goals, and he is third on the team with 36 assists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sidney Crosby left the Pittsburgh Penguins&#8217; game against the Ottawa Senators at the Canadian Tire Centre on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5158,4843,73,75,74,1067,8664],"class_list":["post-149603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-sidney-crosby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}