{"id":66946,"date":"2026-02-21T12:05:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T17:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/brady-tkachuk-admits-to-hatred-as-us-and-canada-prepare-for-olympic-mens-ice-hockey-final\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T17:05:23","slug":"brady-tkachuk-admits-to-hatred-as-us-and-canada-prepare-for-olympic-mens-ice-hockey-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/brady-tkachuk-admits-to-hatred-as-us-and-canada-prepare-for-olympic-mens-ice-hockey-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Brady Tkachuk admits to \u2018hatred\u2019 as US and Canada prepare for Olympic men\u2019s ice hockey final"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Long-time rivals play for gold on Sunday at 2026 Games<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Tensions are high between two teams<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Status of Canada\u2019s Sidney Crosby still uncertain<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US and Canada are prepared for a stormy men\u2019s ice hockey final on Sunday as the long-time rivals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/20\/usa-canada-mens-hockey-gold-medal-milano-cortina\">face off for Winter Olympic gold<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Olympics mark the first time NHL players have competed at the Winter Games since 2014, meaning many of the best players in the world will face each other on Sunday. While Canada are the betting favourites \u2013 and have won the most ice hockey golds in Olympic history \u2013 the US players say they have motivation to upset their northern neighbours.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/21\/usa-canada-mens-ice-hockey-final-winter-olympics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time rivals play for gold on Sunday at 2026 Games Tensions are high between two teams Status of Canada\u2019s Sidney Crosby still uncertain The US and Canada are prepared for a stormy men\u2019s ice hockey final on Sunday as the long-time rivals face off for Winter Olympic gold. This year\u2019s Olympics mark the first time &#8230; <a title=\"Brady Tkachuk admits to \u2018hatred\u2019 as US and Canada prepare for Olympic men\u2019s ice hockey final\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/brady-tkachuk-admits-to-hatred-as-us-and-canada-prepare-for-olympic-mens-ice-hockey-final\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Brady Tkachuk admits to \u2018hatred\u2019 as US and Canada prepare for Olympic men\u2019s ice hockey 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-66946","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\/66946","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=66946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}