{"id":483746,"date":"2026-02-22T11:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/483746\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:36:09","slug":"usa-vs-canada-live-updates-winter-olympics-2026-mens-hockey-gold-medal-game-start-time-stream-lineups-sidney-crosby-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/483746\/","title":{"rendered":"USA vs. Canada live updates: Winter Olympics 2026 men\u2019s hockey gold medal game start time, stream, lineups, Sidney Crosby status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second year in a row, Josh Morrissey will miss a big Canada-USA matchup with an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Team Canada head coach Jon Cooper said after practice yesterday that Morrissey was out \u2014 a big loss, as Morrissey is the No. 2 defenseman on the team. Morrissey was injured in the Olympic opener and tried to ramp it up in practice over the past week to come back but he couldn\u2019t get there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want Josh in this game, he helps us with puck moving and everything he does, but in the end if you\u2019re not physically able to do it \u2026\u201d Cooper said. \u201cBut Josh, in the end, he just wouldn\u2019t be able to perform. \u2026 So we had to make a decision,\u201d added Cooper.<\/p>\n<p>Crushing news for the defenseman, especially after also missing the 4 Nations Face-Off championship game in Boston last year with an illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second year in a row, Josh Morrissey will miss a big Canada-USA matchup with an upper-body&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-483746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483746","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=483746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}