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MILAN (AP) \u2014 Sidney Crosby left Canada\u2019s Olympic quarterfinal<\/a> game against Czechia in the second period because of injury, did not return and his status for the rest of the tournament is uncertain.<\/p>\n

Crosby\u2019s right leg appeared to buckle when he braced for contact on a big hit from Czechia defenseman Radko Gudas a few minutes into the second. Laboring as he stayed on the ice, Crosby got crunched into the boards by Gudas and Martin Necas and then left after shaking his right leg and wincing.<\/p>\n

The respected 38-year-old captain addressed his teammates at the second intermission, telling them to go get it. Inspired by Crosby and doing so in his absence, Canada rallied to tie it after falling behind with 7:42 left and won in overtime<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, the game goes on no matter who gets hurt,\u201d said defenseman Drew Doughty, who was teammates with Crosby when Canada won gold at the Olympics in 2010 and \u201914. \u201cWe even mentioned going out before the third, \u2018Let\u2019s try to win this one for 87.\u2019 Glad we did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coach Jon Cooper said the message was to make sure this wouldn\u2019t be Crosby\u2019s final game in Milan. Canada next plays in the semifinals Friday, and 19-year-old Macklin Celebrini did not want to talk about the possibility of not having Crosby moving forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust keep good thoughts,\u201d said Celebrini, who scored for Canada three minutes in and assisted on Marner\u2019s OT winner. \u201cHopefully he\u2019s back in the next game. That\u2019s our leader, our captain and the heart and soul of our team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crosby was getting punished early in the second by Czechia. Ondrej Palat hit Crosby and sent him sliding into the boards, with no penalty called despite the puck not being in the vicinity, and then the big check from Gudas.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust trying to play hard \u2014 everybody is playing physical,\u201d Gudas said. \u201cHopefully he\u2019s OK. You never want to see a guy get hurt, especially in these tournaments.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Crosby is Canada\u2019s oldest and most accomplished player. He scored the famous golden goal in overtime against the U.S. at the 2010 Games in Vancouver to win it all on home ice and was captain when Canada went unbeaten and never trailed on the way to gold in 2014 in Sochi.<\/p>\n

Again wearing the \u201cC\u201d in Milan, Crosby had two goals and four assists in three preliminary round games.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s the best in the world, he\u2019s one of the best leaders in the world and it sucks,\u201d Canada winger Tom Wilson said. \u201cBut that\u2019s hockey. The next guy\u2019s got to step up, and we\u2019ll regroup and see what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP Winter Olympics: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN (AP) \u2014 Sidney Crosby left Canada\u2019s Olympic quarterfinal game against Czechia in the second period because of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[46305,3189,19,10992,883,5,2086,513,5966,15262,1768,2139,562,9464,768,43,5754,280],"class_list":{"0":"post-462740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympic-games","9":"tag-2026-winter-olympics","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-canada-olympic-team","12":"tag-drew-doughty","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-jon-cooper","15":"tag-martin-necas","16":"tag-olympic-games","17":"tag-olympic-hockey","18":"tag-ondrej-palat","19":"tag-pa-state-wire","20":"tag-pennsylvania","21":"tag-radko-gudas","22":"tag-sidney-crosby","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-sports-stories","25":"tag-tom-wilson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116094574589861308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462740","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=462740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}