For the primary time because the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, Sidney Crosby won’t have a ‘C’ on his jersey when he represents Canada on the worldwide stage.
As an alternative, Macklin Celebrini will stay Canada’s captain for the boys’s world hockey championship, sources confirmed to Sportsnet on Thursday.
Celebrini, 19, was named because the Canadian captain on Sunday earlier than Crosby had formally declared to play for the group. He’s the youngest-ever captain for the senior males’s group.
The San Jose Sharks star captured a silver medal with Canada on the Olympics in Milan, registering 5 targets and 10 factors in six video games. He grew to become the youngest Canadian to play on the Olympics and tied Jarome Iginla for essentially the most targets scored by a Canadian at a match with NHL participation.
In Canada’s first pre-tournament sport for this 12 months’s worlds, Celebrini had a four-point efficiency in Canada’s 6-1 win over France on Sunday.
In the meantime, the 38-year-old Crosby was not a part of the group’s preliminary 23-man roster, as his Pittsburgh Penguins have been simply coming off a defeat by the hands of the Philadelphia Flyers in Spherical 1 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Over his 53 video games performed with the Canadian senior males’s group, the Cole Harbour, N.S., native has 27 targets and 43 assists, and has led Canada to 6 medals on the world stage.
Crosby will function an assistant captain on the group alongside John Tavares and Ryan O’Reilly.
The match in Zürich and Fribourg, Switzerland, takes place from Could 15 to 31. Canada performs its first sport of the match on Friday towards Sweden.