{"id":446430,"date":"2026-02-05T04:51:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/446430\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T04:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:51:22","slug":"dallas-stars-give-olympics-bound-players-send-off-ceremony-before-game-vs-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/446430\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Stars give Olympics-bound players send-off ceremony before game vs. Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Stars<\/a> held their own Olympics opening ceremony at the American Airlines Center when they honored their seven players who will suit up for their respective countries in the Games in Milan.<\/p>\n

A youth hockey player from the Dallas-Fort Worth area representing each country skated onto the ice carrying a flag of the four countries represented: Canada, Czech Republic, Finland and the United States.<\/p>\n

The Stars\u2019 \u201cFinnish Mafia\u201d<\/a>, comprised of Mikko Rantanen, Miro Heiskanen, Esa Lindell and Roope Hintz, will represent Team Finland. Goalie Jake Oettinger will suit up for Team USA<\/a>, Thomas Harley will represent Team Canada<\/a> and Radek Faksa of the Czech Republic will suit up for Team Czechia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stars GM Jim Nill was also honored, as he is serving as the Assistant GM of Team Canada.<\/p>\n

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The men\u2019s Olympic hockey tournament will run from Feb. 11-22 with the gold medal game taking place on Feb. 22.<\/p>\n

Watch the full ceremony below.<\/p>\n

Find more Stars coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Stars held their own Olympics opening ceremony at the American Airlines Center when they honored their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[196,147,5278,5,270,423,4,2602,1716,43,197,2499],"class_list":["post-446430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-stars","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-stars","tag-dallasstars","tag-hockey","tag-mikko-rantanen","tag-miro-heiskanen","tag-nhl","tag-olympics","tag-roope-hintz","tag-sports","tag-stars","tag-video"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116016230137285649","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}