{"id":466185,"date":"2026-02-21T22:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/466185\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T22:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:56:11","slug":"odds-improving-sidney-crosby-plays-in-gold-medal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/466185\/","title":{"rendered":"Odds Improving Sidney Crosby Plays in Gold Medal Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hold onto your hats. The anticipated and heated Men\u2019s hockey gold medal game Sunday between Team USA and Team Canada is trending toward being all hands on deck, including injured Team Canada captain, <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/sidney-crosby\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"156\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sidney Crosby<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Saturday, Team Canada closed their practice to the media, but coach Jon Cooper said Sidney Crosby skated and would meet with team officials Saturday night to determine his status. Cooper called Crosby, \u201ca game-time decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crosby suffered a right leg or knee injury in the Quarterfinals on Wednesday, following a pair of second-period hits from Czech defenseman Radko Gudas. Crosby left the game immediately and did not return. <\/p>\n<p>According to TSN reporter Ryan Rishaug, the feeling around the team is that Crosby is trending toward playing in the game. And the odds are about 70%. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAm told the chances Crosby plays in the Gold medal game are in the 70% range,\u201d Rishaug tweeted. \u201cSeeing how he responds to his skate today and figuring out what his limitations might be are all part of the process tonight and tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Am told the chances Crosby plays in the Gold medal game are in the 70% range. Seeing how he responds to his skate today and figuring out what his limitations might be are all part of the process tonight and tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Rishaug (@TSNRyanRishaug) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNRyanRishaug\/status\/2025217679267668077?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">February 21, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Crosby, the Pittsburgh Penguins captain, skated Friday before the Semifinal match against Finland, but even with custom leg braces was not able to play. Cooper has previously termed him out day-to-day. <\/p>\n<p>The gold medal game is at 8:10 a.m. Sunday morning, airing on NBC and streaming on Peacock. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/sidney-crosby\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Sidney Crosby<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Categorized:<a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/category\/olympics\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Olympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/category\/penguins-news\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Penguins News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hold onto your hats. The anticipated and heated Men\u2019s hockey gold medal game Sunday between Team USA and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5113],"tags":[5,4,118,1469,100,5216,768],"class_list":{"0":"post-466185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-penguins","11":"tag-pittsburgh","12":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","13":"tag-pittsburghpenguins","14":"tag-sidney-crosby"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116111093534873295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466185","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=466185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}