Crosby to join Team Canada for World Championships
MILAN, ITALY - FEBRUARY 18: Sidney Crosby #87 of Team Canada warm sup prior to the Men's Quarterfinals Playoff match between Canada and Czechia on day 12 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Milano Rho Ice Hockey Arena on February 18, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) | Getty Images “I don’t think I have that luxury (of taking long breaks) any more at my age,” Sidney Crosby said at the end of last season in April 2025 . “It’s better to kind of keep going at this point.
” Unsurprisingly, that mindset hasn’t changed. Team Canada announced today that Crosby will join the team for the upcoming World Championships. He didn’t definitively answer the question this year about whether or not he would join, citing discussions about what the rehab plan for his leg would be over the summer.
Apparently that plan now includes playing more hockey right away. ROSTER UPDATE | Sidney Crosby has been added to 🇨🇦’s National Men’s Team for #MensWorlds . MISE À JOUR | Sidney Crosby s’ajoute à l’équipe nationale masculine du 🇨🇦 pour le #MondialMasculin .
pic. twitter. com/O9lh7dt69e — Hockey Canada (@HockeyCanada) May 12, 2026 Crosby, who turns 39 this summer, is basically going into the late-stage Jaromir Jagr-ization phase of his career.
Jagr is and was notorious about his fanatical workouts, always grinding to keep his skills as intact as possible as the inevitability of old age sets in. The shark dies when he stops swimming, as the old saying goes. So too might the aging hockey star.