{"id":482468,"date":"2026-02-21T19:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/482468\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T19:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:16:15","slug":"injured-sidney-crosby-misses-canadas-win-over-finland-not-ruled-out-for-gold-medal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/482468\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured Sidney Crosby misses Canada\u2019s win over Finland, not ruled out for gold medal game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN \u2014 Sidney Crosby did not play in Canada\u2019s 3-2 victory over Finland in the Olympic semifinals Friday because of an apparent right knee injury suffered in the quarterfinals against Czechia on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of the injury, Canada coach Jon Cooper has consistently refused to rule the 38-year-old captain out of the rest of the Games. He did so again after Friday\u2019s matchup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have 48 hours to decide that, but I will tell you he\u2019s got a better chance of playing in the gold-medal game than he had playing in tonight\u2019s game,\u201d Cooper told the Canadian Press.<\/p>\n<p>Canada will face the United States in the gold-medal game at 8:10 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Connor McDavid wore the captain\u2019s \u201cC\u201d for Friday\u2019s game because international rules require a player to be designated captain for each contest. Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar were alternate captains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN \u2014 Sidney Crosby did not play in Canada\u2019s 3-2 victory over Finland in the Olympic semifinals Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-482468","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\/482468","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=482468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}