{"id":42553,"date":"2026-05-12T21:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/42553\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:39:06","slug":"sidney-crosby-joins-team-canada-at-world-hockey-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/42553\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Crosby joins Team Canada at world hockey championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sidney Crosby<\/a> is heading to Switzerland to represent his country at the men\u2019s world hockey championships, Hockey Canada announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

This will mark the Pittsburgh Penguins captain\u2019s fourth career appearance at the international tournament, and second in consecutive years. Crosby was available after the Penguins were eliminated by Philadelphia<\/a> in Game 6 of the first round of the NHL playoffs two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old Crosby\u2019s addition came at the same time Hockey Canada announced New York Islanders forward Mathew Barzal will not compete as a precaution because of an injury.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia\u2019s Porter Martone and New Jersey\u2019s Dawson Mercer were added to the roster hours before the announcement of Crosby in and Barzal out was made.<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear if Crosby would take over as captain for San Jose\u2019s Macklin Celebrini, who was initially expected to wear the \u201cC.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crosby most recently captained Canada\u2019s silver medal-winning team at the Milan Cortina Games in February. He was unable to finish the tournament because of a lower-body injury<\/a>, which sidelined him for nearly a month.<\/p>\n

From Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Crosby is a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation\u2019s elite \u201cTriple Gold\u201d club in having won Olympic and world championship gold medals, and a Stanley Cup. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s a two-time Olympic gold medalist and most memorably scored the championship-clinching overtime goal in Canada\u2019s 3-2 win over the U.S. at the 2010 Vancouver Games. Crosby is a three-time Cup champion with Pittsburgh, and was a member of Canada\u2019s gold medal world championship team in 2015.<\/p>\n

Canada opens the 17-day, 16-nation tournament facing Sweden on Friday. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sidney Crosby is heading to Switzerland to represent his country at the men\u2019s world hockey championships, Hockey Canada…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14139,17,18608,268,14030,63,271,18609,18606,18607,1982,16197,49,1142,5766,6925],"class_list":["post-42553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-canada","tag-dawson-mercer","tag-hockey","tag-mathew-barzal","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-pa-state-wire","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-sidney-crosby","tag-sports","tag-stanley-cup","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}