{"id":66903,"date":"2026-02-20T19:04:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/usa-and-canada-to-meet-in-olympic-mens-ice-hockey-gold-medal-game\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T19:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:04:55","slug":"usa-and-canada-to-meet-in-olympic-mens-ice-hockey-gold-medal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/usa-and-canada-to-meet-in-olympic-mens-ice-hockey-gold-medal-game\/","title":{"rendered":"USA and Canada to meet in Olympic men\u2019s ice hockey gold medal game"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Hughes and Eichel spark US rout of Slovakia<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>MacKinnon scores late to send Canada through<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Border rivals to meet for men\u2019s hockey gold<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The United States and Canada men\u2019s ice hockey teams will play for the Olympic gold medal on Sunday\u2019s final day of the Milano Cortina Games after both teams won their semi-final contests on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Canada left things late in the first game, fighting back from two goals down to win 3-2 over Finland on Nathan MacKinnon\u2019s winner with 35.2 seconds remaining. The US took a more straightforward tack in the nightcap to set up the heavyweight final, roaring past Slovakia 6-2 after Jack Hughes and Jack Eichel scored in a 19-second span during the second period to blow things open, ensuring the Americans no worse than silver and their first men\u2019s hockey medal in 16 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/20\/usa-canada-mens-hockey-gold-medal-milano-cortina\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hughes and Eichel spark US rout of Slovakia MacKinnon scores late to send Canada through Border rivals to meet for men\u2019s hockey gold The United States and Canada men\u2019s ice hockey teams will play for the Olympic gold medal on Sunday\u2019s final day of the Milano Cortina Games after both teams won their semi-final contests &#8230; <a title=\"USA and Canada to meet in Olympic men\u2019s ice hockey gold medal game\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/usa-and-canada-to-meet-in-olympic-mens-ice-hockey-gold-medal-game\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USA and Canada to meet in Olympic men\u2019s ice hockey gold medal game\">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-66903","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\/66903","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=66903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}