{"id":455949,"date":"2026-02-12T19:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/455949\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:11:12","slug":"islanders-bo-horvat-scores-in-canadas-5-0-thrashing-of-czechia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/455949\/","title":{"rendered":"Islanders\u2019 Bo Horvat scores in Canada\u2019s 5-0 thrashing of Czechia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics \u2013 Ice Hockey \u2013 Men\u2019s Preliminary Round \u2013 Group A \u2013 Czechia vs Canada \u2013 Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena, Milan, Italy \u2013 February 12, 2026. Bo Horvat of Canada celebrates with Brad Marchand after scoring their third goal REUTERS\/Mike Segar<\/p>\n

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New York Islanders center Bo Horvat made good on a lifetime wait, scoring in his first game representing Team Canada at the 2026 Winter Olympics during Thursday\u2019s 5-0 beatdown of Czechia.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Up by two goals with 2:34 remaining in the second period of Canada\u2019s Olympic opener, Brad Marchand sent a pass along the red line to a streaking Horvat, who flew past a pair of defenders to come in alone on Czechia netminder Luk\u00e1\u0161 Dost\u00e1l. With a deke to his backhand, the Islanders\u2019 star slid the puck under the Anaheim Ducks\u2019 goalie\u2019s pads and into the back of the net.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With it, Horvat became the first member of the Islanders to score for Team Canada at the Olympics<\/a> since Trevor Linden in 1998. That is more of a technicality, though, as Linden was traded from the Vancouver Canucks to the Islanders just a day before the Olympic break began, meaning he had never appeared in a game for New York.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s first game of the preliminary round was as dominant as expected. These are the significant favorites to win gold in what is the NHL\u2019s return to the Olympics after a 12-year hiatus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

San Jose Sharks star Macklin Celebrini opened the scoring with just six seconds remaining in the first period before Canada added a pair in the second. Mark Stone of the Vegas Golden Knights doubled the advantage 6:40 into the frame before Horvat\u2019s late tally put the result beyond doubt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nathan MacKinnon of the Colorado Avalanche and Nick Suzuki of the Montreal Canadiens added third-period goals, while St. Louis Blues goalie Jordan Binnington stopped all 26 shots that he faced.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

For more on Bo Horvat and the Islanders at the Olympics, visit AMNY.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics \u2013 Ice Hockey \u2013 Men\u2019s Preliminary Round \u2013 Group A \u2013 Czechia vs Canada…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[3669,5,122,3328,159,5190,5189,4,2602,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-455949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-islanders","8":"tag-bo-horvat","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-islanders","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-islanders","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkislanders","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-olympics","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116059249077354231","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455949","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=455949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}