{"id":451337,"date":"2026-02-08T16:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T16:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/451337\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T16:26:12","slug":"sidney-crosby-named-captain-of-team-canadas-mens-hockey-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/451337\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Crosby named captain of Team Canada\u2019s men\u2019s hockey team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penguins captain Sidney Crosby was tabbed to lead Canada at the 2026 Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Team Canada officially named Crosby as captain on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an honour to be named captain of Canada\u2019s men\u2019s hockey team, which has so many great players and leaders,\u201d a statement from Crosby said.<\/p>\n<p>Connor McDavid and Cale Makar were named as alternate captains.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This is Crosby\u2019s second time captaining Canada. He was a captain in 2014 and won gold medals in both 2014 and 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Crosby, McDavid and Makar all wore letters at the 4 Nations Face-Off last year, which Canada won.<\/p>\n<p>Team Canada takes the ice at the Milan Cortina Games for the first time on Thursday at 10:40 a.m. against Czechia.<\/p>\n<p>Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penguins captain Sidney Crosby was tabbed to lead Canada at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Team Canada officially named&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[377],"tags":[3189,1116,19,811,155,5,768,3037],"class_list":{"0":"post-451337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-2026-winter-olympics","9":"tag-cale-makar","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-captain","12":"tag-connor-mcdavid","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-sidney-crosby","15":"tag-team-canada"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451337","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=451337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}