{"id":458975,"date":"2026-02-15T18:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/458975\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:33:12","slug":"sidney-crosby-sets-canadian-record-for-points-in-olympics-featuring-nhl-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/458975\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Crosby sets Canadian record for points in Olympics featuring NHL players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada captain Sidney Crosby became the country\u2019s all-time leader in points at Olympics featuring NHL players with a second-period goal Sunday against France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Crosby has two points so far in Canada\u2019s preliminary-round matchup against the French, giving him 15 total points in his Olympic career. He came into Sunday\u2019s contest one point behind Jarome Iginla at 14. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Crosby picked up his first point on a Cale Makar goal in the second, which came on the power play and gave Canada a 4-1 lead. Crosby then picked up Canada\u2019s third goal of the frame to establish the new NHL player Olympic mark. NHL players have been present at the Olympics in 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Crosby had two points in Canada\u2019s tournament-opening win over Czechia on Thursday and added a goal in their 5-1 win over Switzerland on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada\u2019s 2026 men\u2019s team has already won Group A and looks to lock up the No. 1 seed as they wrap up their showdown with France to close out group play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada captain Sidney Crosby became the country\u2019s all-time leader in points at Olympics featuring NHL players with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,5,4,32614,33208],"class_list":{"0":"post-458975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-5","12":"tag-sidney-crosby-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8471675"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116076085677909989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458975","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=458975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}