{"id":65959,"date":"2026-02-10T17:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/usa-dominates-short-handed-canada-to-close-out-womens-hockey-group-play\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T17:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:55:31","slug":"usa-dominates-short-handed-canada-to-close-out-womens-hockey-group-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/usa-dominates-short-handed-canada-to-close-out-womens-hockey-group-play\/","title":{"rendered":"USA dominates short-handed Canada to close out women\u2019s hockey group play"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Hannah Bilka scores twice in 5-0 shutout win<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Canada captain Marie-Philip Poulin out with injury<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>US will face Italy in quarter-final on Friday<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hannah Bilka scored twice, and the United States\u2019 youth and speed overwhelmed a Canadian women\u2019s hockey team missing its captain in a 5-0 win at the Milan Cortina Games on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The lopsided victory in Milan clinched first place for the US in Group A entering the quarter-finals, and continued confirming why the Americans entered the tournament as favorites. Team USA swept all four preliminary-round games by a combined score of 20-1 and brought back memories of how a Canadian team in their prime rolled to winning gold at the 2022 Beijing Games.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/10\/us-canada-olympic-womens-hockey\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Bilka scores twice in 5-0 shutout win Canada captain Marie-Philip Poulin out with injury US will face Italy in quarter-final on Friday Hannah Bilka scored twice, and the United States\u2019 youth and speed overwhelmed a Canadian women\u2019s hockey team missing its captain in a 5-0 win at the Milan Cortina Games on Tuesday. The &#8230; <a title=\"USA dominates short-handed Canada to close out women\u2019s hockey group play\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/usa-dominates-short-handed-canada-to-close-out-womens-hockey-group-play\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USA dominates short-handed Canada to close out women\u2019s hockey group play\">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-65959","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\/65959","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=65959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}