Sidney Crosby has scored an Olympic goal for the first time in 12 years.<\/p>\n
Crosby scored on Friday in the third period of Team Canada\u2019s 5-1 preliminary round win over Switzerland in Milan.<\/p>\n
The tally helped Canada improve to 2-0 following Thursday\u2019s 5-0 win over Czechia. Next up is a game against France this Sunday at 10:40 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n
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Friday\u2019s goal marked the sixth goal and 13th point in 15 games of Crosby\u2019s Olympic career.<\/p>\n
Crosby recorded four goals and three assists in seven games of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, including his overtime golden goal against Team USA.<\/p>\n
He added one goal and two assists, with his lone tally coming in a 5-0 bronze medal game shutout of Finland, through six games of the 2014 Sochi Olympics.<\/p>\n
Crosby has now recorded three points in two games of the 2026 Milan Olympics thanks to a pair of helpers against Czechia and his goal against Switzerland.<\/p>\n
The captain is so far the only Penguins player to record a goal this tournament. Erik Karlsson and Rickard Rakell have each contributed an assist during Sweden\u2019s 1-1 start to the tournament. They dropped the puck against Slovakia this morning at 6:10 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n
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Arturs Silovs made his Olympic debut in relief for Elvis Merzlikins during Latvia\u2019s 5-1 loss to the United States on Thursday. He made five saves on six shots against a stacked Team USA. He and Latvia 2343 also back in action early this morning with a 6:10 a.m. ET matchup against Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sidney Crosby has scored an Olympic goal for the first time in 12 years. Crosby scored on Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[8659,19,155,7819,642,30453,5,4211,15213,517,4,55566,118,1469,100,5216,5782,768,40022,6711],"class_list":{"0":"post-457824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-arturs-silovs","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-connor-mcdavid","11":"tag-elvis-merzlikins","12":"tag-erik-karlsson","13":"tag-golden-goal","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-italy","16":"tag-milan","17":"tag-nathan-mackinnon","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-olympic-goal","20":"tag-penguins","21":"tag-pittsburgh","22":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","23":"tag-pittsburghpenguins","24":"tag-rickard-rakell","25":"tag-sidney-crosby","26":"tag-sixth-goal","27":"tag-switzerland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116069208153001419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457824","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=457824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}