{"id":476741,"date":"2026-02-18T23:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476741\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T23:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:49:08","slug":"canada-survives-wild-scare-from-czechia-but-it-comes-at-a-huge-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476741\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Survives Wild Scare From Czechia, But It Comes At A Huge Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadians will be concerned about the injury status of their captain, Sidney Crosby<\/p>\n<p>PublishedFebruary 18, 2026 2:00 PM EST\u2022UpdatedFebruary 18, 2026 4:53 PM EST<\/p>\n<p>FacebookTwitterEmailCopy Link<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Olympic<\/a> men&#8217;s hockey quarterfinals are underway, and we have a thriller between the Canadians and Czechia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Canada managed to survive a massive scare, but may now have to move on to the semifinals without captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/sidney-crosby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sidney Crosby<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">This game saw the Canadians fall behind 2-1 in the first period, which was the first time they had trailed all tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">READ: <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/sports\/losing-hockey-fight-frenchman-should-grounds-automatic-expulsion-from-olympics?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">LOSING A HOCKEY FIGHT TO A FRENCHMAN SHOULD BE GROUNDS FOR AUTOMATIC EXPULSION FROM OLYMPICS<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/canada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Canada<\/a> comes in as the gold medal favorite, falling behind a wildly talented Czechia team that won an IIHF World Championship in 2024 was a challenge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">That challenge got even tougher when Crosby appeared to sustain a lower-body injury falling a couple of big checks, including one from Czechia defenseman and Anaheim Ducks captain Radko Gudas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">He is known as &#8220;The Butcher&#8221; for a reason, and worse yet, for the Canadians, it was announced that Crosby would not return after heading to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">That&#8217;s a major loss for the Canadians on a few levels. Crosby has more Olympic experience than pretty much anyone else on the roster, and of course, brings a lot of leadership to the table.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Plus, losing a top-line center is a big problem in a beer league, let alone at the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">It remains to be seen if he&#8217;ll be ready for the semifinals, but the Canadian captain not returning is a concern.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">READ: <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/culture\/dog-crashes-olympic-cross-country-ski-video?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">DOG CRASHES OLYMPIC CROSS-COUNTRY SKI RACE, STEALS SHOW WITH PHOTO-FINISH SPRINT<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">However, his teammates battled back to tie the game at 2-2, then knotted it at 3-3 with just 3 minutes or so left in regulation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">It was on to overtime, and it didn&#8217;t take too long once the 3-on-3, ten-minute extra frame got started for Mitch Marner to call the game with an unreal individual effort.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">What a backhander. That&#8217;s probably the biggest goal he has ever scored with a maple leaf on the front of his jersey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">So Canada moves on, but you can be sure that they will be anxiously awaiting an update on Crosby&#8217;s condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadians will be concerned about the injury status of their captain, Sidney Crosby PublishedFebruary 18, 2026 2:00&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-476741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}