Sidney Crosby scored the \u201cgolden goal,\u201d<\/a> securing Canada\u2019s gold medal in the men\u2019s hockey event on home soil at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n\u201cWhen Sid scored, I remember exactly where I was \u2013 I was at my mom\u2019s place,\u201d said Morrissey. \u201cI think it was mid-afternoon, and I just remember going crazy there with my brother.\u201d<\/p>\n
As a lifelong hockey player and fan, Morrissey still can\u2019t wrap his head around the fact that he too has the potential to be a part of a historic moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing a fan and being a proud Canadian and as a young hockey player thinking or dreaming that maybe that could be me one day, it\u2019s pretty surreal that I\u2019m actually going to have that opportunity,\u201d said Morrissey.<\/p>\n
Morrissey has had success at the international level before. He was part of the gold-medal-winning team at both the 2013 IIHF U18 World Championship and 2015 World Juniors, and helped lead Canada to a silver medal at the 2017 World Championship.<\/p>\n
According to the Jets alternate captain, buying in and accepting your role early is key when you have top-tier players coming together for a short period of time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re representing your country and doing that with the best players, it\u2019s really something that it\u2019s not a hard ask to adjust your game if that\u2019s what\u2019s required,\u201d said Morrissey. \u201cI think teams in short-term competition that have the best buy-in and the players that kind of commit to whatever their role is as quickly as possible generally have more success in those events … I think if you ask every guy in that room, they wouldn\u2019t care how many minutes they played or what role they were playing if they could achieve that [winning].\u201d<\/p>\n
Many of the players named to Team Canada\u2019s roster have never been to an Olympic Games before, but Morrissey said those who have offered some key advice for first-timers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey all kind of encourage us first-time guys to experience other sports if you can,\u201d said Morrissey. \u201cObviously we\u2019re busy, but try to see some other events and then also just interact with other athletes, whether that\u2019s in the village or wherever … It\u2019s special just to feel that Olympic camaraderie, so that\u2019s something I\u2019m really excited to kind of be a part of that community.\u201d<\/p>\n
He\u2019ll get to take in all the excitement with friends and family as well. After all, an Italian winter getaway wasn\u2019t the toughest pitch to his inner circle.<\/p>\n
\u201cOlympics in Italy definitely wasn\u2019t a tough sell to the family and friends,\u201d joked Morrissey. \u201cI think immediate family, and then I\u2019ve got some friends joining as well at various points throughout the Games. It\u2019ll be a big group, and I\u2019m excited to share any big experience with them.\u201d<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s hockey tournament begins Feb. 11, 2026, with Canada\u2019s first preliminary game against Czechia on Feb. 12, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets defenceman Josh Morrissey knows all about winning gold medals for his country, but the chance to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5121],"tags":[4759,5,33299,78,34583,4,42978,77,18,32441,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-435114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg-jets","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-hockey-canada-sports-hockey-hockey-canada","11":"tag-jets","12":"tag-josh-morrissey-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8477504","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-olympics-sports-olympics","15":"tag-winnipeg","16":"tag-winnipeg-jets","17":"tag-winnipeg-jets-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-52","18":"tag-winnipegjets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115980946978961141","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}