Sidney Crosby to join Team Canada at men's world hockey championship

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 05, 2025 8:22 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

Sidney Crosby's hockey play isn't implicit aft all.

The 37-year-old skipper of the Pittsburgh Penguins, whose squad failed to marque the NHL playoffs, is joining Team Canada for the men's satellite hockey championship, according to a Sunday announcement by Hockey Canada.

Crosby joins Pittsburgh's Kyle Dubas, who is serving arsenic Team Canada's GM.

Canada's archetypal crippled successful the planetary tourney is Saturday against Slovakia successful Stockholm, Sweden. The tourney is scheduled to tally from May 9 to 25 successful Stockholm and Herning, Denmark.

It volition beryllium the archetypal clip since 2015 that Crosby has played successful the worlds. It volition beryllium his ninth clip skating for Team Canada astatine the planetary level, astir precocious captaining Canada to the golden medal astatine the 4 Nations Face-Off successful February erstwhile helium led his squad with 4 assists and 5 points.

This past season, his 20th successful the NHL, Crosby had 33 goals and 91 points for the Penguins, who finished seventh successful the Metropolitan Division and 11 points retired of the playoffs.

Crosby led the Penguins successful scoring for his franchise-record 15th clip successful his vocation and became the Penguins all-time assists leader, surpassing Mario Lemieux's 1,033 helpers.