{"id":575011,"date":"2026-05-14T20:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/575011\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T20:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:57:15","slug":"crosby-to-wear-a-for-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/575011\/","title":{"rendered":"Crosby to wear &#8216;A&#8221; for Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macklin Celebrini\u00a0will remain captain of Team Canada for the World Championship and Sidney Crosby\u00a0will wear an &#8216;A&#8221;, TSN reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Crosby, who was added to Canada&#8217;s roster after Celebrini was named captain, said on Thursday afternoon that it didn&#8217;t matter to him whether he was Captain, and Celebrini also sounded willing to relinquish the &#8216;C&#8217; if Crosby wanted it. According to TSN, the decision to let Celebrini remain captain came from a &#8220;player-lead discussion&#8221; where &#8220;the players wanted Celebrini to keep the &#8216;C.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The last time Crosby played for Canada and wasn&#8217;t the captain was in the 2010 Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macklin Celebrini\u00a0will remain captain of Team Canada for the World Championship and Sidney Crosby\u00a0will wear an &#8216;A&#8221;, TSN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5113],"tags":[32654,5,4,118,99,1469,100,5216],"class_list":{"0":"post-575011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-feed-article","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-penguins","12":"tag-penguins-news","13":"tag-pittsburgh","14":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","15":"tag-pittsburghpenguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116574934982835043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575011","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=575011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}