The United States moved to 2-0 in the Olympics on Saturday, as the Americans overcame a 2-1 first-period deficit to defeat Denmark, 6-3.<\/p>\n
In the process, two Golden Knights scored for the Americans, with forward Jack Eichel and defenseman Noah Hanifin scoring back-to-back goals in the second period – seven minutes apart – to give the U.S. a 4-2 lead.<\/p>\n
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Also scoring for the Americans were Matt Boldy, Brady Tkachuk, Jake Guentzel and Jack Hughes.<\/p>\n
Hanifin’s goal held up as the game-winner, while Eichel also had an assist on Tkachuk’s goal.<\/p>\n
Eichel, who is on the same line with Brady and Matthew Tkachuk, now has three assists in the Olympics.<\/p>\n
Eichel scored<\/a> off his own faceoff win a minute after setting up Brady Tkachuk’s goal, while Hanifin’s shot<\/a> slipped past Mads Sogaard and trickled past the goal line to give the United States the cushion it would need.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n After dispatching Latvia rather easily 5-1 on Thursday in its opener, the U.S. has six points in the standings, matching Canada, going into the final day of the preliminary round.<\/p>\n The U.S. finishes round-robin play against Germany, while the Canadians face France (0-2-0). If each win in regulation, the No. 1 spot in the single-elimination knockout round will come down to goal differential.<\/p>\n PHOTO CREDIT: Jack Eichel of United States in action with Nicklas Jensen of Denmark and Lars Eller of Denmark in men’s ice hockey group C play during the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States moved to 2-0 in the Olympics on Saturday, as the Americans overcame a 2-1 first-period…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[536,6435,149,5317,5,1041,1272,1331,4810,1086,799,94,4,55796,2833,1309,74,39,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-459835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vegas-golden-knights","8":"tag-brady-tkachuk","9":"tag-denmark","10":"tag-golden-knights","11":"tag-goldenknights","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-jack-eichel","14":"tag-jack-hughes","15":"tag-jake-guentzel","16":"tag-lars-eller","17":"tag-mads-sogaard","18":"tag-matt-boldy","19":"tag-matthew-tkachuk","20":"tag-nhl","21":"tag-nicklas-jensen","22":"tag-noah-hanifin","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-vegas","25":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","26":"tag-vegasgoldenknights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116081040233895330","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459835","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=459835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}