{"id":67889,"date":"2026-02-20T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/crosby-out-of-olympic-semifinal-mcdavid-to-captain-canada\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:35:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:35:31","slug":"crosby-out-of-olympic-semifinal-mcdavid-to-captain-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/crosby-out-of-olympic-semifinal-mcdavid-to-captain-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Crosby out of Olympic semifinal, McDavid to captain Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/sports\/2026\/02\/20\/crosby-out-of-olympic-semifinal-mcdavid-to-captain-canada\/\">Crosby out of Olympic semifinal, McDavid to captain Canada<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/sports\/2026\/02\/20\/crosby-out-of-olympic-semifinal-mcdavid-to-captain-canada\/\">https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/sports\/2026\/02\/20\/crosby-out-of-olympic-semifinal-mcdavid-to-captain-canada\/<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-20 09:30:00<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>Sports<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0February 20, 2026 at 9:30AM EST<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"c-media-item__caption\">Canada&#8217;s Sidney Crosby (87) is helped as he leaves the bench after being checked against the boards during the second period of a men&#8217;s ice hockey quarterfinal game between Canada and Czechia at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. (AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster) <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MILAN &#8211; Sidney Crosby will not play for Canada in the men\u2019s Olympic hockey semifinal against Finland after sustaining a lower-body injury in the quarterfinal win over Czechia. Connor McDavid will serve as Canada\u2019s captain in Crosby\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More details to come.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/sports\/2026\/02\/20\/crosby-out-of-olympic-semifinal-mcdavid-to-captain-canada\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crosby out of Olympic semifinal, McDavid to captain Canada https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/sports\/2026\/02\/20\/crosby-out-of-olympic-semifinal-mcdavid-to-captain-canada\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-20 09:30:00 Sports&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/resizer\/v2\/7IELE6M2YNHMKUKOAB5R5ULRFA.jpg?smart=true&auth=2deed92df7db91fcbf57d83de0fe3fd989b4414dc70c5596a84c7c94f5767c5f&width=1200&height=630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67891,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67889\/revisions\/67891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}