{"id":216370,"date":"2026-03-31T04:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=216370"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:49:00","slug":"sidney-crosby-is-not-heading-toward-the-career-end-he-had-hoped-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=216370","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Crosby is not heading toward the career end he had hoped for."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn\u2019t supposed to end like this. Not for Sidney Crosby. Not for a player of his caliber. Not for a guy who scored a golden goal in 2010, lifted Stanley Cups, and carried an entire country on his shoulders for years. And yet. Canada lost the Olympic final 2-1 in overtime to the Americans&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dose.ca\/2026\/02\/22\/sidney-crosby-is-not-heading-toward-the-career-end-he-had-hoped-for\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn\u2019t supposed to end like this. Not for Sidney Crosby. Not for a player<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216370-sidney-crosby-is-not-heading-toward-the-career-end-he-had-hoped-for.jpg",1024,683,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216370-sidney-crosby-is-not-heading-toward-the-career-end-he-had-hoped-for-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216370-sidney-crosby-is-not-heading-toward-the-career-end-he-had-hoped-for-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216370-sidney-crosby-is-not-heading-toward-the-career-end-he-had-hoped-for-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216370-sidney-crosby-is-not-heading-toward-the-career-end-he-had-hoped-for.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216370-sidney-crosby-is-not-heading-toward-the-career-end-he-had-hoped-for.jpg",1024,683,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216370-sidney-crosby-is-not-heading-toward-the-career-end-he-had-hoped-for.jpg",1024,683,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216370-sidney-crosby-is-not-heading-toward-the-career-end-he-had-hoped-for.jpg",1024,683,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216370-sidney-crosby-is-not-heading-toward-the-career-end-he-had-hoped-for-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216370-sidney-crosby-is-not-heading-toward-the-career-end-he-had-hoped-for-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/216371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}