{"id":483858,"date":"2026-02-22T13:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/483858\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T13:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T13:10:07","slug":"crosby-out-for-canada-against-united-states-in-olympic-gold-medal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/483858\/","title":{"rendered":"Crosby out for Canada against United States in Olympic gold medal game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/sidney-crosby-8471675\" title=\"Sidney Crosby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sidney Crosby<\/a> will not play for Team Canada in the gold medal game against Team USA at Santagiulia Arena on Sunday (8:10 a.m. ET; Peacock, NBC, ICI Tele, CBC Gem, CBC, SN [JIP], TSN [JIP], RDS).<\/p>\n<p>Crosby, Team Canada&#8217;s captain, will miss his second game with a lower-body injury he sustained in second period of the quarterfinals against Team Czechia on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He also did not play in Canada\u2019s 3-2 win against Team Finland in the semifinals on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Canada will use the same lineup as it did against Finland, with Crosby and defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/josh-morrissey-8477504\" title=\"Josh Morrissey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Morrissey<\/a>, who is out with an undisclosed injury, the two skater scratches along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/darcy-kuemper-8475311\" title=\"Darcy Kuemper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darcy Kuemper<\/a>, who is the third goalie.<\/p>\n<p>There was optimism around Team Canada that Crosby would be able to return for the gold medal game after he skated in Canada\u2019s optional practice Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Following practice, coach Jon Cooper said he would meet with Crosby and a determination on his availability for the game would be made Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe won&#8217;t put himself in harm&#8217;s way,\u201d Cooper said. \u201cHe&#8217;s not going to put the team in harm&#8217;s way.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN &#8212; Sidney Crosby will not play for Team Canada in the gold medal game against Team USA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483859,"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-483858","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\/483858","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=483858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}