{"id":215398,"date":"2026-02-19T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/jon-cooper-team-canada-give-sidney-crosby-privacy-amid-battle-with-injury-in-2026-winter-olympics\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:50:11","slug":"jon-cooper-team-canada-give-sidney-crosby-privacy-amid-battle-with-injury-in-2026-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/jon-cooper-team-canada-give-sidney-crosby-privacy-amid-battle-with-injury-in-2026-winter-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Cooper, Team Canada give Sidney Crosby privacy amid battle with injury in 2026 Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bolavip.com\/en\/nhl\/jon-cooper-team-canada-give-sidney-crosby-privacy-amid-battle-with-injury-in-2026-winter-olympics\">Jon Cooper, Team Canada give Sidney Crosby privacy amid battle with injury in 2026 Winter Olympics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bolavip.com\/en\/nhl\/jon-cooper-team-canada-give-sidney-crosby-privacy-amid-battle-with-injury-in-2026-winter-olympics\">https:\/\/bolavip.com\/en\/nhl\/jon-cooper-team-canada-give-sidney-crosby-privacy-amid-battle-with-injury-in-2026-winter-olympics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-19 15:19:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"bolavip.com\">bolavip.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\"><strong>Team Canada<\/strong> is not ready to confirm whether Sidney Crosby is out for the 2026 Winter Olympics after leaving the quarterfinal against Czechia with an injury. As the semifinal matchup with Finland draws closer, head coach <strong>Jon Cooper<\/strong> and his staff have chosen to give their captain privacy while also avoiding to show Canada\u2019s hand ahead of a crucial showdown.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">As reported by Ryan Rishaug of TSN, Team Canada has decided to hold its morning skate ahead of the semifinal <strong>behind closed doors<\/strong>. The news comes as a surprise, considering Doug Armstrong, Team Canada\u2019s general manager, had previously confirmed that no more practices would be closed to the media.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">Desperate times, call for desperate measures. As Sidney Crosby\u2019s injury sparks fear of a worst-case scenario, it\u2019s clear Jon Cooper, Canada, and company will be extra cautious. The team\u2019s latest measure is yet another example of Cooper and Canada announcing a key decision on Crosby for the rest of the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word text-articleHeading2Mobile md:text-articleHeading2\">When does Canada play?<\/h2>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">With or without Sidney Crosby, the show must go on\u2014and what a spectacle the 2026 Winter Olympics have provided so far. With a trip to the gold medal game on the line, Cooper\u2019s Team Canada will <strong>take on Finland on February 20th at 10:40 am ET<\/strong>. The winner of that semifinal will await for the victor when Team USA and Slovakia face off at 3:10 pm ET. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text-center mt-5 text-[14px] leading-[20px] font-normal\">Sidney Crosby of Team Canada<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word text-articleHeading2Mobile md:text-articleHeading2\">Team Canada\u2019s projected lines without Crosby<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aspect-square max-w-[100px] m-[10px] md:m-0\" src=\"https:\/\/media.bolavip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/02\/18165752\/connormcdavidsidneycrosby-200x200.webp\" alt=\"Team Canada accused of getting help from referees in 2026 Winter Olympics hockey win vs Czechia after Sidney Crosby injury\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary my-[13px] uppercase text-alsoReadSeeAlso bg-alsoReadSeeAlsoBackground alsoReadSeeAlso w-fit\">see also<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full line-clamp-3 md:line-clamp-2 text-alsoReadEmbedTitle font-primary alsoReadLink\">Team Canada accused of getting help from referees in 2026 Winter Olympics hockey win vs Czechia after Sidney Crosby injury<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">If Crosby is indeed unable to dress for the semifinal, then Florida Panthers center <strong>Sam Bennett could find his way back into the lineup<\/strong>. If that\u2019s the case, this is how Team Canada\u2019s forward lines could look against Finland at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] list-disc ps-10\">\n<li class=\"break-word\">Macklin Celebrini \u2013 Connor McDavid \u2013 Tom Wilson<\/li>\n<li class=\"break-word\">Brandon Hagel \u2013 Nathan MacKinnon \u2013 Nick Suzuki<\/li>\n<li class=\"break-word\">Mitch Marner \u2013 Bo Horvat \u2013 Mark Stone<\/li>\n<li class=\"break-word\">Brad Marchand \u2013 Sam&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bolavip.com\/en\/nhl\/jon-cooper-team-canada-give-sidney-crosby-privacy-amid-battle-with-injury-in-2026-winter-olympics\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Cooper, Team Canada give Sidney Crosby privacy amid battle with injury in 2026 Winter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.bolavip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/02\/19142832\/sidney-crosby-4-1200x740.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215400,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215398\/revisions\/215400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}