{"id":462314,"date":"2026-02-18T18:32:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/462314\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:32:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:32:40","slug":"canada-captain-sidney-crosby-leaves-in-quarters-with-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/462314\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada captain Sidney Crosby leaves in quarters with lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Team Canada captain Sidney Crosby left Wednesday\u2019s Olympic men\u2019s quarter-final matchup against Czechia with a lower-body injury and did not return.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sidney Crosby (lower body) will not return<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/2024174613979156982?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Crosby took a pair of hits along the boards in the second period, with Czechia\u2019s Radko Gudas knocking him to the ice on one of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Crosby was slow to get to the Canada bench and went down the tunnel after being assessed, appearing to favour his right leg. He was officially ruled out for the game as the third period began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Crosby played seven shifts in 4:41 of ice time prior to departing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada trailed Czechia 2-1 at the time of Crosby\u2019s exit and were down 3-2 late in the third but fought back, pulling even on Nick Suzuki\u2019s late equalizer and winning in overtime on Mitch Marner\u2019s nifty backhand. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Canada captain Sidney Crosby left Wednesday\u2019s Olympic men\u2019s quarter-final matchup against Czechia with a lower-body injury and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,5,4,33208],"class_list":{"0":"post-462314","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-sidney-crosby-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8471675"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116093071330986292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462314","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=462314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}