{"id":670972,"date":"2026-05-28T23:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/670972\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T23:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:02:12","slug":"penguins-sidney-crosby-scores-for-canada-in-win-against-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/670972\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins\u2019 Sidney Crosby scores for Canada in win against United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Penguins forward Sidney Crosby scored a goal for Canada, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iihf.com\/pdf\/969\/ihm969358_74_3_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">shut out the United States, 4-0<\/a>, in a quarterfinal round game of the International Ice Hockey Federation\u2019s (IIHF) World Championship tournament at BCF Arena in Fribourg, Switzerland, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Opening the contest on the left wing of the top line, Crosby logged 17:22 of ice time on 20 shifts, had five shots and was 3 for 3 on faceoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Penguins defenseman Parker Wotherspoon started the contest on the left side of Canada\u2019s top pairing. Clocking 17:32 of ice time on 23 shifts, Wotherspoon accumulated two penalty minutes.<\/p>\n<p>For the United States, Penguins defenseman Connor Clifton opened the contest on the right side of the third pairing. Logging 16:32 of ice time on 23 shifts, Clifton also had two penalty minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Penguins forward Tommy Novak began the contest on the left wing of the top line. During 12:38 of ice time on 19 shifts, Novak was 1 for 8 (12.5%) on faceoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Canada will meet Finland in the semifinal round on Saturday, 2:20 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The United States finished the tournament in eighth place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins forward Sidney Crosby scored a goal for Canada, which shut out the United States, 4-0, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-670972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670972","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=670972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}