{"id":484035,"date":"2026-02-25T11:29:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=484035"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:31:58","slug":"pittsburgh-penguins-captain-sidney-crosby-injury-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/02\/25\/pittsburgh-penguins-captain-sidney-crosby-injury-update\/","title":{"rendered":"After Injury at Olympics, an Update on Penguins Sidney Crosby&#8217;s Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: #faf8ff;\">Today we see some more of the unfortunate part of extra hockey. Of course we get more goals, more saves, more bone-jarring hits, more champions, but we will also get\u2026more injuries. The Pittsburgh Penguins released an update on the status of their captain today. <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/crosbsi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sidney Crosby<\/a>, who had also been captain for Team Canada at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/02\/22\/2026-milano-cortina-winter-olympics-usa-wins-2-1-canada-team-mens-ice-hockey-game-recap\/\" target=\"_self\">2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics<\/a>, will miss a minimum of four weeks with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Crosby is expected to miss a minimum of four weeks. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K3WB2aQa9y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/K3WB2aQa9y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Penguins PR (@PenguinsPR) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PenguinsPR\/status\/2026674583294673214?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 25, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: #faf8ff;\">Sidney Crosby Will Miss At Least 4 Weeks with Injury<\/h2>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: #faf8ff;\">Crosby has been putting on an all-time performance, really for the past 21 years, if not longer. But this year in particular, at age 38, he had been flirting with the all-time record for goals in a <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.quanthockey.com\/nhl\/player-age\/40-year-old-nhl-players.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">single season of a player his age<\/a>. It does seem like that record will be safe now, given the amount of time Crosby is estimated to miss. His 27 goals to this point has him tied for sixth most all time for a player of his age. Simply incredible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: #faf8ff;\">As a note, <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/o\/ovechal01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Ovechkin<\/a> had 31 in his 38-year-old season, but 44 last year, at 39. <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/howego01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gordie Howe<\/a> is probably the standard, still to this day, as he netted 44 in 1968-69, at age 40. One record that Crosby won\u2019t see disappear, is his consecutive <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/penguins\/news\/sidney-crosby-sets-nhl-record-with-20th-point-per-game-season\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">point-per-game streak<\/a>. That is set to hit 21, assuming he can maintain his 59 points in 56 games rate, when and if he returns before the start of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: #faf8ff;\">What Happened and is Happening<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: #faf8ff;\">Team Canada fans are familiar with when the injury took place. It was in Canada\u2019s quarterfinal against Team Czechia. <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gudasra01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Radko Gudas<\/a> had made a couple physical plays on Crosby in quick succession. We then saw Crosby walking very slowly to the dressing room. Furthermore, we knew the injury must be somewhat substantial, as Crosby was unable to lace them up in either of Canada\u2019s final two playoff games. That included the Gold Medal finale versus Team USA that saw the US capture their first Gold Medal in men\u2019s ice hockey at the Olympics in some 46 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: #faf8ff;\">Now, as we shift back to NHL reality, there are many injuries players will have to contend with. Pittsburgh is still in a fight for a playoff spot, but does have some cushion. Hopefully others, like <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kindebe01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Benjamin Kindel<\/a> and <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/novakth01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-25_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Novak<\/a> will be able to elevate their play down the middle, in Sid\u2019s absence. Otherwise, Pittsburgh\u2019s current five-point lead over the Columbus Blue Jackets in fourth in the Metropolitan Division standings, might not be so comforting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; background-color: #faf8ff;\">In some positive news for Pittsburgh, they do activate defenceman Kris Letang from injured reserve. He had missed Pittsburgh&#8217;s final four games before the Olympic break with a foot issue. However, he practiced with the club recently, and should be good to go.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #374151; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Main Photo Geoff Burke Imagn Images<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we see some more of the unfortunate part of extra hockey. Of course we get more goals, more saves, more bone-jarring hits, more champions, but we will also get\u2026more injuries. The Pittsburgh Penguins released an update on the status of their captain today. Sidney Crosby, who had also been captain for Team Canada at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4222,"featured_media":483734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4547,6671,34,4548],"tags":[140,591],"class_list":["post-484035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-penguins","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-news","category-nhl","tag-sidney-crosby","tag-team-canada"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484035"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484039,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484035\/revisions\/484039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}