{"id":33463,"date":"2025-02-16T04:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T04:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/16\/three-fights-nine-seconds-usa-beat-canada-to-reach-4-nations-face-off-final\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T04:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T04:42:15","slug":"three-fights-nine-seconds-usa-beat-canada-to-reach-4-nations-face-off-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/16\/three-fights-nine-seconds-usa-beat-canada-to-reach-4-nations-face-off-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Three fights, nine seconds: USA beat Canada to reach 4 Nations Face-Off final"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>USA beat Canada 3-1 at Montreal\u2019s Centre Bell<\/li>\n<li>Teams fight three times in first nine seconds<\/li>\n<li>US national anthem booed again before game<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dylan Larkin scored the go-ahead goal in the second period and the United States beat Canada 3-1 in the 4 Nations Face-Off on Saturday night, wrapping up a spot in the championship game by winning a game that started with three fights in nine seconds and was played at a blistering pace with physicality throughout.<\/p>\n<p>The most anticipated game of round-robin play did not disappoint, from the fisticuffs off the opening faceoff to big hits from Charlie McAvoy on Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid and more than a few vital saves by Connor Hellebuyck among his 24. And the US showed they could keep up with Canada\u2019s speed, skill and talent in the first international event with the NHL\u2019s best players in nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/15\/usa-canada-4-nations-face-off-fights-anthem-booed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA beat Canada 3-1 at Montreal\u2019s Centre Bell Teams fight three times in first nine seconds US national anthem booed again before game Dylan Larkin scored the go-ahead goal in the second period and the United States beat Canada 3-1 in the 4 Nations Face-Off on Saturday night, wrapping up a spot in the championship &#8230; <a title=\"Three fights, nine seconds: USA beat Canada to reach 4 Nations Face-Off final\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/16\/three-fights-nine-seconds-usa-beat-canada-to-reach-4-nations-face-off-final\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Three fights, nine seconds: USA beat Canada to reach 4 Nations Face-Off final\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}