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\nPittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby meets with media in front of his locker at the NHL hockey team’s practice facility in Cranberry Township, Pa, Friday, May 1, 2026. <\/p>\n
Sidney Crosby is heading to Switzerland to represent his country at the men\u2019s world hockey championships, Hockey Canada announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
This will mark the Pittsburgh Penguins captain\u2019s fourth career appearance at the international tournament, and second in consecutive years. Crosby was available after the Penguins were eliminated by Philadelphia in Game 6 of the first round of the NHL playoffs two weeks ago.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old Crosby\u2019s addition came at the same time Hockey Canada announced New York Islanders forward Mathew Barzal will not compete as a precaution because of an injury.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia\u2019s Porter Martone and New Jersey\u2019s Dawson Mercer were added to the roster hours before the announcement of Crosby in and Barzal out was made.<\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear if Crosby would take over as captain for San Jose\u2019s Macklin Celebrini, who was initially expected to wear the \u201cC.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crosby most recently captained Canada\u2019s silver medal-winning team at the Milan Cortina Games in February. He was unable to finish the tournament because of a lower-body injury, which sidelined him for nearly a month.<\/p>\n
From Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Crosby is a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation\u2019s elite \u201cTriple Gold\u201d club in having won Olympic and world championship gold medals, and a Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s a two-time Olympic gold medalist and most memorably scored the championship-clinching overtime goal in Canada\u2019s 3-2 win over the U.S. at the 2010 Vancouver Games. Crosby is a three-time Cup champion with Pittsburgh, and was a member of Canada\u2019s gold medal world championship team in 2015.<\/p>\n
Canada opens the 17-day, 16-nation tournament facing Sweden on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP Photo Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby meets with media in front of his locker at the NHL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5113],"tags":[5,4,118,1469,100,5216,768,3037,7314],"class_list":{"0":"post-575083","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","15":"tag-team-canada","16":"tag-world-hockey-championships"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116575430548920540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575083","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=575083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}