{"id":462692,"date":"2026-02-19T00:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/462692\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:10:14","slug":"olympic-quarterfinal-day-islanders-back-at-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/462692\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Quarterfinal Day; Islanders back at practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here we are! Well, sort of\u2026almost. The Islanders are now legally allowed to reconvene, while Wednesday at the Olympics offers a full day of men\u2019s ice hockey quarterfinals:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The U.S. and Sweden likely gave themselves the toughest mutual matchup, thanks to Sweden\u2019s round-robin slip and the U.S. failure to run up the score against each opponent as drastically as Canada did. #OlympicSpirit<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It has always seemed to be Canada\u2019s tournament to lose \u2014 or maybe Canada\u2019s goaltenders\u2019 tournament to lose \u2014 and the Czechs have shown little indication they pose an upset threat. The lost 5-0 to the red leafs in the opener, and also lost to Denmark in OT before beating the House of Frans, 3-2 in the knockout round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Anyway, we\u2019re now nine days away from the Islanders resuming their NHL schedule in Montreal, the start of 24 games in 48 days. To hold us over while stealing glances at the quarterfinals:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here we are! Well, sort of\u2026almost. The Islanders are now legally allowed to reconvene, while Wednesday at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26255,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-462692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-bits-o-islanders-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116094397515024138","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462692","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=462692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}