Celebrini makes history for Canada in win against France

MILAN -- Macklin Celebrini made Olympic history and Team Canada all but clinched the No. 1 seed in the men’s hockey tournament of the Olympic Winter Games Cortina 2026 with a 10-2 win against Team France at Santaguilia Arena on Sunday.

Celebrini, a 19-year-old center with the San Jose Sharks, became the first NHL player to score on a penalty shot in the Olympics when he put Canada ahead 5-1 at 17:16 of the second period. He also had another goal and an assist.

Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid and Mark Stone each had a goal and two assists, Cale Makar and Tom Wilson each had a goal and an assist and Devon Toews, Bo Horvat and Brandon Hagel also scored.

Jordan Binnington made 12 saves to help Canada finish 3-0-0-0 in the preliminary round and get a bye into the quarterfinals, which start Wednesday.

Floran Douray and Sacha Treille scored for France, and Julian Junca made 27 through two periods before being relieved by Antoine Keller, who made nine saves. France went 0-0-3-0 in the preliminary round and will likely be the No. 11 seed.

With nine points, Canada could finish tied with Team USA by the end of Sunday, but it has the edge in goal-differential, the first tiebreaker.

Canada led the U.S. by two goals in goal-differential entering Sunday, which means the U.S would have to defeat Germany by 11 goals to get the No. 1 seed.

Wilson put Canada ahead 1-0 at 8:41 of the first period, pouncing on the rebound of a shot from Drew Doughty.

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Thirteen seconds after Wilson scored, Douray it 1-1, snagging a rebound and lifting it over Binnington at 8:54.

Canada regained the lead at 9:33 when Crosby, Toews and Stone came in on a 3-on-1. With Stone breaking to the net, Crosby instead fed Toews in the middle of the ice where he sent a wrist shot past Junca to make it 2-1.

France went on the power play with 1:11 left in the first when Travis Sanheim was called for holding and looked to tie the game. But Stone increased Canada’s lead with a short-handed goal, intercepting an Alexandre Texier pass and skating in on Junca before lifting a backhand shot over him to make 3-1 with 3.4 seconds left in the first.

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Makar made it 4-1 at 12:10 of the second period with a power-play goal, firing a wrist shot over Junca’s glove.

Celebrini was awarded a penalty shot when he was hooked by Florian Chakiachvili on a breakaway. He took his time getting to Junca, then went forehand-backhand before lifting a soft forehand shot over the goalie’s blocker to make it 5-1.

Crosby scored 19 seconds later at 17:35 of the second to make it 6-1.

McDavid gave Canada a 7-1 lead 20 seconds into the third, and after France’s Sacha Treille cut it to 7-2 with a long slap shot at 1:28, Horvat scored from in close at 5:14 to make it 8-2.

Hagel’s scored his first of the Olympics at 10:46 to make it 9-2.

Celebrini scored his second goal of the game and fourth of the Olympics at 11:47 for the 10-2 final.