The Washington Capitals will watch Tom Wilson and Logan Thompson go for gold on Sunday, as Team Canada rallied from a 2-0 deficit against Finland in the Olympic semifinals for a 3-2 win.<\/p>\n
Wilson played a vital part in that victory, as he threw several hits, played a strong two-way game and, ultimately, helped set up the game-tying goal in the third. The 31-year-old helped keep the puck in the zone and sent it back toward the goal, where ultimately, Shea Theodore was able to beat Juuse Saros and make it a 2-2 game.<\/p>\n
From there, Canada scored on the power play with 36 seconds to go in regulation, as Nathan MacKinnon put home the game-winner to help Canada advance to the gold medal game. Sam Reinhart also scored for the Canadians.<\/p>\n
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Wilson finished the game with one assist and a plus-1 rating through 12:47 minutes and has four points in five games so far this tournament, along with 29 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n
“(What he brings) is now being appreciated on a Team Canada level… it now really perks people’s ears up to how effective Tom Wilson is and how great of a player he is.”<\/p>\n
Thompson, who has been backing up Jordan Binnington, appeared in one game so far for Canada, stopping 24 of 25 shots for a .960 save percentage.<\/p>\n
Canada will face the winner of the USA-Slovakia semifinal game for gold on Sunday at 8:10 a.m. ET. Finland will face the loser for bronze on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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Wilson and Thompson’s teammate, Martin Fehervary, leads Slovakia in average ice time per game so far through the Olympics. Slovakia faces Team USA at 3:10 p.m. ET on Friday.<\/p>\n
Either way, Canada is guaranteed some type of hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals will watch Tom Wilson and Logan Thompson go for gold on Sunday, as Team Canada…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5114],"tags":[19,191,5,1268,1500,907,5926,517,55157,4,252,56357,9,3037,280,190,109,5222],"class_list":{"0":"post-464914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-capitals","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-capitals","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-jordan-binnington","12":"tag-juuse-saros","13":"tag-logan-thompson","14":"tag-martin-fehervary","15":"tag-nathan-mackinnon","16":"tag-nbc-olympics","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-sam-reinhart","19":"tag-semifinal-game","20":"tag-shea-theodore","21":"tag-team-canada","22":"tag-tom-wilson","23":"tag-washington","24":"tag-washington-capitals","25":"tag-washingtoncapitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116104876902015402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464914","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=464914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}