{"id":462364,"date":"2026-02-18T19:15:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/462364\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T19:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:15:29","slug":"how-david-pastrnak-finished-2026-winter-olympics-after-canada-eliminates-czechia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/462364\/","title":{"rendered":"How David Pastrnak finished 2026 Winter Olympics after Canada eliminates Czechia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruins<\/a>Updated: Feb. 18, 2026, 1:32 p.m.|Published: Feb. 18, 2026, 1:32 p.m.\"DavidCzechia’s David Pastrnak. (Darryl Dyck\/The Canadian Press via AP)AP<\/p>\n

David Pastrnak\u2019s<\/a> Olympics are over after Czechia fell to the Canada in overtime Wednesday in the win-or-go-home quarterfinal. <\/p>\n

The Boston Bruins<\/a> star finished his first Winter Olympics <\/a>with two goals<\/a> and three assists in five games.<\/p>\n

Pastrnak put the Czechs ahead 2-1<\/a> in the first period on the power play, but Canada never went away and forced overtime en route to the eventual thrilling win.<\/p>\n

Canada previously beat Czechia, 5-0, on Feb. 12.<\/p>\n

Pastrnak admitted prior to Czechia\u2019s game against Denmark on Tuesday that he needed to be better, and had arguably his best performance Wednesday.<\/p>\n

But even without Sidney Crosby<\/a> for most of the game, Canada proved to be too much for the Czechs. <\/p>\n

Lauren Campbell joined MassLive in 2023 as a breaking and trending Boston sports reporter covering all things locally and nationally. Campbell also produces MassLive’s “Fenway Rundown” podcast. In her previous… more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BruinsUpdated: Feb. 18, 2026, 1:32 p.m.|Published: Feb. 18, 2026, 1:32 p.m.Czechia’s David Pastrnak. (Darryl Dyck\/The Canadian Press via…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5099],"tags":[46305,26402,154,95,5132,530,2675,5,15348,55018,4,5966,2602,46263,43,49619,25639,31286,55019],"class_list":["post-462364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-bruins","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympic-games","tag-2026-winter-olympic-games","tag-boston","tag-boston-bruins","tag-bostonbruins","tag-bruins","tag-events","tag-hockey","tag-milan-cortina-olympics","tag-milan-cortina-winter-olympics","tag-nhl","tag-olympic-games","tag-olympics","tag-olympics-2026","tag-sports","tag-winter-games","tag-winter-olympic-games","tag-winter-olympics-2026","tag-xxv-olympiad"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116093238688842452","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462364","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=462364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}