{"id":455941,"date":"2026-02-12T19:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/455941\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:02:29","slug":"stars-thomas-harley-records-pair-of-assists-as-canada-blanks-czechia-in-group-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/455941\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars\u2019 Thomas Harley records pair of assists as Canada blanks Czechia in group play"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Stars<\/a> have scored in Italy. <\/p>\n

After his NHL teammates from Finland were unable to find the score sheet in their opening 4-1 loss<\/a> against Slovakia, defenseman Thomas Harley recorded a pair of assists in Canada\u2019s 5-0 win over Czechia (and Stars forward Radek Faksa) on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Macklin Celebrini scored Canada\u2019s first goal in the return of the NHL to the Olympics<\/a> and Jordan Binnington stopped all 26 shots he faced on Thursday in a victory that showed the tournament favorite is already a well-oiled machine.<\/p>\n

Celebrini, his country\u2019s youngest player at 19, deflected a shot by Cale Makar past Lukas Dostal with 5.7 seconds left in the first, putting an exclamation point on a terrific, back-and-forth period. After Mitch Marner\u2019s saucer pass to Mark Stone for his goal and Bo Horvat\u2019s on a breakaway later in the second, Czechia never stood a chance.<\/p>\n

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The handful of times Binnington got tested, he was there to make the save. Before Celebrini scored, Binnington kept it 0-0 by making a left-pad stop on Michal Kempny and reaching out to smother David Kampf\u2019s rebound attempt.<\/p>\n

At the other end of the ice, Dostal played well but was helpless to slow down much of the onslaught. There was nothing he could do on the Sidney Crosby to Connor McDavid to Nathan MacKinnon tic-tac-toe power-play goal in the third period.<\/p>\n

The same trio combined for almost the same goal<\/a> in opening game of the 4 Nations Face-Off a year ago. Canada won that Olympic appetizer by beating the U.S. \u2014 which opens Thursday against Latvia \u2014 in overtime.<\/p>\n

McDavid had three assists, including one on Nick Suzuki\u2019s goal that made it 5-0.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this post.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>Thursday\u2019s TV\/Radio listings (Feb. 11)<\/a><\/p>\n

Team USA takes the ice against Latvia to kick off men\u2019s hockey play at the Olympics.<\/p>\n

\"Slovakia's<\/a>Finland\u2019s Dallas Stars-laden hockey team falls short against Slovakia in Olympic opener<\/a><\/p>\n

Finland\u2019s defense of its Beijing 2022 gold medal got off to a rough start as NHL players made their return to the Olympics.<\/p>\n

Fin<\/a>d more Stars coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Stars have scored in Italy. After his NHL teammates from Finland were unable to find the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[196,147,5278,5,4,2602,197,2392],"class_list":{"0":"post-455941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-stars","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-stars","10":"tag-dallasstars","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-olympics","14":"tag-stars","15":"tag-thomas-harley"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116059213556507490","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455941","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=455941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}