Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby will serve as Team Canada’s captain at the World Cup of Hockey 2016, Hockey Canada announced Thursday. The 29-year-old Crosby has previously been the captain for Team Canada, at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games and the 2015 IIHF World Championship — they took home the gold both times. As captain of the Penguins, Crosby led the team to two Stanley Cup championships, most recently in 2016. Crosby scored one of the most memorable ... Read More
Crosby to join Canada for World Championships
While the Pittsburgh Penguins season is over, captain Sidney Crosby isn’t quite ready to hang up his skates for the summer. Crosby will be joining Team Canada for the 2015 IIHF World Championships, which begin May 1 in Prague and Ostrava, Czech Republic. Because the World Championships coincide with the NHL playoffs, Crosby hasn’t represented his national team since 2006. He scored eight goals and added eight assists in Canada’s nine games in his only previous appearance at the World ... Read More
Pirates reflect back to their time at WBC
Once every four years, respective sports hold a competition to find out who the best of the best is throughout the world. The first one that comes to mind, of course, would be the Summer and Winter Olympics respectively. To a lesser degree - depending on who you speak to - is the World Cup which pits the best of the best that soccer has to offer against each other over a month long tournament. While baseball is America's oldest game, it's also the newest to the four-year annual ... Read More