Pierre LeBrun

You know, the idea coming into this tournament was to go one, two, three, three-headed monster down the middle with, you know, with McDavid, with Crosby, and with McKinnon.

And now a couple of things have happened.

Crosby's injured.

He's going to try to give it a go on Sunday.

But, you know, John Cooper made it really clear to us yesterday.

They're not going to put him in harm's way.

Everyone has to sign off on this, from the doctors.

I mean, Cal Dubas is here as assistant GM of Team Canada, his NHL GM.

Pat Brisson, his longtime agent, is here.

trying to get him all the help he can.

So he's surrounded by, you know, his people and making this decision.

He's going to try.

I think he's going to try and find a way to play, but I'm not 100% ready to tell you that's going to happen.

So what's happened with him out of the lineup is they've really gone away from the three-headed monster.

It's also because Nathan McKinnon is not 100%.

We don't know what he's dealing with.

Yeah.

No, he had a big goal and honestly did some great work on that power play goal, if you rewind it.

I mean, he won a couple of fuck battles along the wall that kept that play alive that ended up back on its feet for the winning goal.

But he's not 100%.