{"id":454143,"date":"2026-02-11T06:50:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/454143\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T06:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:50:33","slug":"team-canada-has-reportedly-chosen-their-starting-goaltender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/454143\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Canada has reportedly chosen their starting goaltender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report from NHL.com goaltending insider Kevin Woodley, Team Canada is expected to turn to St. Louis Blues netminder Jordan Binnington as their starter, at least for Thursday&#8217;s game against Czechia.<\/p>\n<p>Binnington gets the start over Los Angeles Kings goaltender Darcy Kuemper and Washington Capitals goaltender Logan Thompson, despite some truly awful NHL statistics this season.<\/p>\n<p>Binnington has just eight wins in 32 games with the Blues and an NHL career-worst .864 save percentage this season. Meanwhile, Kuemper and Thompson have been amongst the NHL&#8217;s leaders this season.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Binnington has proven himself to be a clutch goaltender when put under pressure. He rose out of nowhere to lead the Blues to a Stanley Cup championship in 2019 and he, of course, starred for Canada in last year&#8217;s 4 Nations victory. <\/p>\n<p>I mean&#8230; who can forget these saves with the game on the line?<\/p>\n<p>With these front of mind, it&#8217;s easy to see why Canada has chosen to give &#8216;Binner&#8217; the start. But don&#8217;t be surprised if he&#8217;s kept on a short leash and the team turns to Kuemper or Thompson should Binnington falter.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a report from NHL.com goaltending insider Kevin Woodley, Team Canada is expected to turn to St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[368,5,1268,907,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-454143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-darcy-kuemper","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-jordan-binnington","11":"tag-logan-thompson","12":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454143","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=454143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}