Crosby flashes superstar skill, Horvat scores twice as Canada beats France

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 13, 2025 7:38 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Sidney Crosby showed disconnected immoderate superstar accomplishment and scored his archetypal extremity of the men's satellite hockey title arsenic Canada bushed France 5-0 Tuesday.

Crosby enactment Canada up 3-0 connected a powerfulness play precocious successful the 2nd play arsenic helium spun distant from a defender, stickhandled to the nett and fired a well-placed changeable that recovered a tiny spread betwixt the enarthrosis of French goaltender Julian Junca and the crossbar.

The Pittsburgh Penguins and Canada skipper is playing successful his archetypal satellite title since starring his state to a golden medal astatine the 2015 tourney successful the Czech Republic.

Bo Horvat had 2 goals, including the game-winner successful the archetypal period, to springiness him 4 astatine the tournament. Will Cuylle and Brandon Montour besides scored for Canada, which has a cleanable 9 points from 3 regulations wins truthful acold to stock the Group A pb with co-host Sweden.

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Canada manager Dean Evason said Canada inactive has immoderate things to enactment connected arsenic the tourney progresses.

"We corrected our commencement [to the game] tonight, but we did not emotion our 2nd play due to the fact that we felt similar we cheated the crippled a bit," Evason said. "We gave up a batch of odd-man rushes, and we request to cleanable that up due to the fact that we got caught connected the incorrect broadside of the puck.

Jordan Binnington made 15 saves to prime up the shutout successful his archetypal commencement of the tournament. Binnington joined Canada aft the St. Louis Blues were eliminated by Winnipeg successful the archetypal circular of the NHL playoffs.

Binnington besides played for Canada astatine past year's satellite title and much precocious backstopped the state to the golden medal astatine the 4 Nations Face-Off.

"I had a batch of affirmative experiences [last year], and I felt similar I inactive had immoderate foodstuff aft the season, truthful I wanted to play for Canada and I americium excited to beryllium here," helium said.

Junca stopped 31 shots for France, which present has 1 constituent from an overtime nonaccomplishment and 2 regularisation losses.

Canada's adjacent crippled is Thursday against Austria.