Sidney Crosby has another honor besides his name.

The Canadian hockey icon had a goal and two assists on Sunday as he defeated France 10-2 in the Milan-Cortina Olympic men’s tournament qualifier, finishing with a perfect record.

The three goals brought Crosby, 38, to 16 points in the tournament, surpassing Jarome Iginla’s NHL-era national team record of 14 points.

The league made five Olympic appearances between 1998 and 2014. The NHL withdrew from the 2018 Olympics for financial reasons, but the planned restart four years later was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Canada won gold medals with its star men in 2002, 2010 and 2014, and Crosby played a key role in the latter two championships.

Macklin Celebrini added two goals and an assist on Sunday, and Connor McDavid and Mark Stone each had two goals and an assist.

Cale Makar and Tom Wilson (both goals and assists), Devon Toews, Bo Horvat and Brandon Hagel provide the rest of the offense for Team Canada (3-0-0-0), who await the winner of the Czech Republic vs. Denmark game in Tuesday’s qualifying playoff that will determine their quarterfinal opponent. Jordan Binnington made just 11 saves.

“Our intentions are good,” Crosby said. “There are still areas I would like to clean.”

Wilson was also sent off for fighting Pierre Crinnon after the French defender put a forearm into the face of Nathan MacKinnon in the third period.

“That’s a big part of our goals,” Canada head coach Jon Cooper said. “These two are going through walls for each other. It’s fun to watch. I think we’re used to that happening.”

“It was harmless in the grand scheme of things, but that was Willie.”

McDavid’s three points broke the single-tournament record for a Canadian NHL player, held by Jonathan Toews, who had nine points in nine periods in the superstar center’s Olympic debut and scored eight points in seven games in 2010.

Teemu Selanne and Saku Koivu share the all-time tournament points record for NHLers with 11, both set in 2006 at an event in Turin, Italy.

“We did what we were supposed to do,” McDavid said of a game that lacked emotion until Crinnon drilled MacKinnon without the puck behind France’s net. “We’re here to win hockey games, and we’re going to continue to grow.”

Florent Douai and Sacha Treuille answered for France (0-0-0-3). Julian Hunka allowed six goals on 33 shots in the second period. Antoine Keller made three saves in the third inning. Justin Adamo had two assists.

Canada advances to group stage

Canada, with a plus-17 goal difference, opened the season with a 5-0 win over the Czech Republic, followed by a 5-1 win over Switzerland to take first place in Group A heading into their matchup with France.

“It was, ‘Are we getting better as a team?'” Cooper said of his approach to Sunday. “‘How do you play without the puck?’ I don’t care about the rest.

“If we want to win this tournament, we should allow one or two goals a game.”

Switzerland (1-1-1-0) clinched second place in its group with a 4-3 overtime victory over the Czech Republic (1-0-1-1) on Sunday.

Injured defenseman Josh Morrissey (undisclosed) was again absent from the game against Canada, and Brad Marchand was injured up front for the second consecutive game despite Cooper’s insistence that he would return for the game against France. The coach said Sunday that the 37-year-old had been suffering from an illness but should be able to make it to his dorm in time.

The red-shirted Canadians took an early lead, but France hung on until Wilson buried the rebound at 8:41.

The Frenchman, who received plenty of cheering inside the Milano Santa Giulia Ice Hockey Arena, including chants of “Alle Les Bleus” that echoed throughout the 11,600-seat venue, hit back just 13 seconds later when Canadian defenseman Colton Parayko turned the puck over and Binnington’s big rebound failed to box Doue out.

“When you go into these tournaments, you expect everyone to perform at their best coming out of the gate,” Stone said. “But I feel like if we play 60 minutes and get over the four line, the team will start to wear down.

That’s what happened in the end.

Canada likely to get the No. 1 seed

Canada, which holds the No. 1 seed in the qualifying round unless the U.S. scores a 10-goal win against Germany later Sunday, regained the lead at 9:31 when Toews received a pass from Crosby on a 3-on-1.

France built a man advantage late in the period, but Stone stole the puck on the penalty kill and chipped a cheeky breakaway backhand past Hunka to make it 3-1 with 3.4 seconds left.

At 12:10 of the second, Makar converted a pass from McDavid into Canada’s deadly power play to make it 4-1. Celebrini was then taken down on a breakaway at 17:16, but the ensuing penalty shot did not miss.

Crosby attempted a pass just 19 seconds later that hit a French defender and slipped past a helpless Hunka, extending the lead to 6-1 just 19 seconds later. During that time, an opposing teammate recorded the only shot on target.

Keller’s first shot of the third was a McDavid breakaway that he slid home for his ninth point.

“One of the best teams in the world,” said the French netminder. “It’s quite difficult, but I’m doing my best.”

France beat Binnington with Treuil’s first shot of the period at 1:28, but Horvat made it 8-2 with a rebound at 5:14, Hagel scored at 10:46, and Celebrini scored on the power play at 11:47.

Crinnon, who was whistled early in the game for interfering with MacKinnon’s forearm, dropped his glove on his next shift and wrestled with Wilson, resulting in both players being ejected under International Ice Hockey Federation rules.

Sunday marked the one-year anniversary since Canada and the United States faced off three times in nine seconds in the Four-Nation Faceoff, an NHL-run event.

“Now let’s see where the chips fall,” Cooper said of the quarter. “Survive and move forward.”