{"id":66998,"date":"2026-02-22T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/usa-stun-canada-in-overtime-to-win-first-olympic-mens-ice-hockey-gold-since-1980\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:00:34","slug":"usa-stun-canada-in-overtime-to-win-first-olympic-mens-ice-hockey-gold-since-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/usa-stun-canada-in-overtime-to-win-first-olympic-mens-ice-hockey-gold-since-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"USA stun Canada in overtime to win first Olympic men\u2019s ice hockey gold since 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>US win third Olympic gold, first since Miracle on Ice<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Jack Hughes\u2019 golden goal ends 46-year wait in Milan<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The United States claimed their third Olympic men\u2019s hockey title \u2013 and first since the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miracle_on_Ice\">Miracle on Ice<\/a> team of 1980 \u2013 with a thrilling 2-1 overtime win over Canada in Sunday\u2019s gold medal game at the Milano Cortina Games. In the third Olympic final meeting between the border rivals and the first since Sidney Crosby\u2019s epochal golden goal in 2010, the Americans seized their moment to end a 46-year wait and dethrone the sport\u2019s most decorated nation on its grandest stage.<\/p>\n<p>Canada had been chasing a record-extending 10th gold medal in men\u2019s ice hockey, but it was the United States who delivered when it mattered most through Jack Hughes\u2019 winner less than two minutes into the extra period and a superhuman effort from goaltender Connor Hellebuyck, capping an unbeaten run through the first Olympic tournament to feature National Hockey League players in 12 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/22\/usa-canada-hockey-olympic-gold-medal-game-jack-hughes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US win third Olympic gold, first since Miracle on Ice Jack Hughes\u2019 golden goal ends 46-year wait in Milan The United States claimed their third Olympic men\u2019s hockey title \u2013 and first since the Miracle on Ice team of 1980 \u2013 with a thrilling 2-1 overtime win over Canada in Sunday\u2019s gold medal game at &#8230; <a title=\"USA stun Canada in overtime to win first Olympic men\u2019s ice hockey gold since 1980\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/usa-stun-canada-in-overtime-to-win-first-olympic-mens-ice-hockey-gold-since-1980\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USA stun Canada in overtime to win first Olympic men\u2019s ice hockey gold since 1980\">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-66998","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\/66998","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=66998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}