{"id":457024,"date":"2026-02-13T18:27:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/457024\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T18:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:27:26","slug":"st-louis-blues-young-star-shines-at-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/457024\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Blues young star shines at Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN\u2014Multiple St. Louis Blues are representing their home countries in the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina but it\u2019s the team\u2019s rookie who stole the starlight this week.<\/p>\n<p>In the first Olympic game for Team Slovakia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/dalibor-dvorsky-8484164\" title=\"Dalibor Dvorsky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dalibor Dvorsky<\/a>, a Blues center, gave the Slovaks a 2-1 lead shortly into the third period against Team Finland. The goal turned out to be the game-winning goal and he also had two points. Dvorsky is 20 years old, the youngest Slovak player to score at the Olympics with NHL players.<\/p>\n<p>Despite outshooting the Slovaks 40-25, Finland fell 4-1 with the Minnesota Wild goalie, Samuel Hlavaj, making 39 saves for the Slovaks. Montreal Canadiens\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/juraj-slafkovsky-8483515\" title=\"Juraj Slafkovsky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Juraj Slafkovsky<\/a>\u00a0had two goals and an assist. Dvorsky spoke high praise of his country\u2019s goalie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was fantastic all game long,\u201d said Dvorsky. \u201cHe made some huge saves, saves that most of the goalies can\u2019t make. He is a world-class goalie, and he showed it today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Team Slovakia feels they can beat anyone after stunning Finland. Their next game is on Friday against Team Italy at 5:10 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN\u2014Multiple St. Louis Blues are representing their home countries in the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina but it\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120],"tags":[19246,71,5,19247,40,4,534,84,5285,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-457024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-blues","8":"tag-around-st-louis","9":"tag-blues","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-john-gerding","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-st-louis","15":"tag-st-louis-blues","16":"tag-stlouis","17":"tag-stlouisblues"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116064737335895376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457024","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=457024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}