{"id":462498,"date":"2026-02-18T21:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/462498\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:25:13","slug":"connor-mcdavid-mitch-marner-and-team-canada-get-warning-from-jon-cooper-after-sidney-crosbys-injury-vs-czechia-in-2026-winter-olympics-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/462498\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor McDavid, Mitch Marner and Team Canada get warning from Jon Cooper after Sidney Crosby&#8217;s injury vs Czechia in 2026 Winter Olympics hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a hard-fought victory over Czechia in the quarterfinals of the 2026 Winter Olympics, <a href=\"https:\/\/bolavip.com\/en\/topic\/canada\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Canada\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Canada<\/a> coach Jon Cooper issued a stern warning to his stars, including <a href=\"https:\/\/bolavip.com\/en\/topic\/connor-mcdavid\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Connor McDavid\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Connor McDavid<\/a>, Mitch Marner and Nathan MacKinnon.<\/p>\n<p>It all came in the wake of losing <a href=\"https:\/\/bolavip.com\/en\/topic\/sidney-crosby\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sidney Crosby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sidney Crosby<\/a> to injury as a clear reminder that no victory will comes without effort and risk in the tough road to a gold medal. Cooper emphasized that the level of competition is tremendous in the tournament. For that reason, overconfidence cannot be allowed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the Olympic Games. This is the best of the best. This is why all the players want to come to this, because they want to show who they are and they want to flex. If you think you\u2019re rolling through this tournament, you\u2019re sorely mistaken. Yes. We like the fact that we won the first 3 games and didn\u2019t have to play for the qualification game. Hell yeah, but that doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re gonna keep on winning. It doesn\u2019t mean because you got the Maple Leaf on your jersey that, \u2018Hey, oh my gosh, you\u2019re gonna be first.\u2019 You\u2019ve got to work to that and the guys in there know it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    What is Sidney Crosby\u2019s injury update with Team Canada? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bolavip.com\/en\/nhl\/sidney-crosby-injury-update-jon-cooper-not-losing-hope-of-canadas-captain-return-at-2026-winter-olympics\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sidney Crosby\u2019s injury update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sidney Crosby\u2019s injury update<\/a> indicates that he might not be out of the 2026 Winter Olympics. The legend of the <a href=\"https:\/\/bolavip.com\/en\/topic\/pittsburgh-penguins\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pittsburgh Penguins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> apparently is dealing with a lower-body problem following a collision with Radko Gudas during the quarterfinal against Czechia.<\/p>\n<p>He was seen limping toward the locker room in the second period, but Team Canada confirmed that he has not been officially ruled out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/bolavip.com\/en\/topic\/winter-olympics\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"2026 Winter Olympics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2026 Winter Olympics<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The severity of the injury will be determined after medical examinations, and fans and teammates are closely monitoring his condition as Canada prepares for the next stage of the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a hard-fought victory over Czechia in the quarterfinals of the 2026 Winter Olympics, Canada coach Jon Cooper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[19,155,5,533,4,118,1469,100,5216,768,2787],"class_list":{"0":"post-462498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-connor-mcdavid","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-mitch-marner","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-penguins","14":"tag-pittsburgh","15":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","16":"tag-pittsburghpenguins","17":"tag-sidney-crosby","18":"tag-winter-olympics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116093750144320258","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462498","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=462498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}