caught on a hot mic during the contest<\/a>, per Mark Lazerus of The Athletic.<\/p>\n\u201cAlways the bridesmaid, eh, Leon?\u201d he said as the two skated near the benches. \u201cAlways the bridesmaid, never the bride.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a clear reference to the fact that Tkachuk has faced off with Draisaitl twice in the Stanley Cup Final the past two years. He skated off the ice as a champion twice, while the Oilers’ star player left dejected. Draisaitl would ultimately give a comment on Tkachuk.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always a challenge,\u201d he said. \u201cOur teams have some history. And (it\u2019s) always fun playing him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Draisaitl has not had the best Olympic performance so far. He has just one goal with two assists so far in the Games. Still, that is second on the team behind Tim Stutzle, who has found the back of the net four times.<\/p>\n
Germany finished up 1-2 in the group play, which will lead them to face France on Tuesday. They would be unlikely to face the United States again<\/a>, unless Germany makes a run to the gold medal game or the United States falter in the semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team USA enjoyed a 5-1 victory over Germany in their final game of the group stage at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[377],"tags":[146,57,5,370,94,4,2602],"class_list":{"0":"post-460792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-edmonton-oilers","9":"tag-florida-panthers","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-leon-draisaitl","12":"tag-matthew-tkachuk","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-olympics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116086226632446338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460792","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=460792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}