{"id":463970,"date":"2026-02-19T23:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/463970\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T23:38:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:38:20","slug":"canada-usa-dodge-disaster-as-olympic-semifinals-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/463970\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada, USA dodge disaster as Olympic semifinals set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The practically pre-ordained dream final of Canada vs. USA in Olympic men\u2019s hockey is still on the table after both tournament favorites needed overtime to avoid disaster in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Canada erased a late Czech one-goal lead (from current Islander Ondrej Palat, lest you forget) to then win on a Mitch Marner OT winner, while the U.S. outlasted Sweden and advanced on a Quinn Hughes OT winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the other quarters, Slovakia continued its sleeper rise while easing past Germany \u2014 they get to face USA next \u2014 while Finland broke Switzerland\u2019s heart with a comeback win, earning the Finns a meeting with the possibly Crosby-less(?) Canucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The practically pre-ordained dream final of Canada vs. USA in Olympic men\u2019s hockey is still on the table&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26255,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-463970","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\/116099934150683714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463970","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=463970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}