Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz are joined by Yahoo Sports senior writer and author of the “Yahoo Sports AM” daily newsletter Kendall Baker to discuss Sidney Crosby’s injury in Team Canada’s overtime win over Czech Republic in the quarterfinals of the 2026 Winter Olympics. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV.
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If the news isn’t good on this, not just for the Olympics, how’s the NHL going to react to this when they’re put- Yes.
they’ve put their season on hold to let this happen?
Yeah, I mean, outside of like, a McDavid or, you know, like, yeah, McDavid, I mean, might be the only guy.
Like, this is m- maybe worst-case scenario if it’s a, if it’s a very bad injury, if he has to miss time for the Penguins.
Like, that’s, that’s the nightmare scenario that every sports league, when it comes to participating in these things, like, that’s the counterargument to doing it, that you always hear.
It’s like, well, you know, if this happens, the owners are gonna be You know, it, it, it would not be good.
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and so we’ll see what happens there.
but, yeah, he’s arguably still the face of the sport, and, certainly coming out of the Olympics, if we have some epic final, that is sort of dulled a little bit by this injury, for sure.
So hoping for the best, for sure, for him.