{"id":465105,"date":"2026-02-20T23:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/465105\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T23:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:38:13","slug":"binnington-parayko-to-play-for-gold-at-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/465105\/","title":{"rendered":"Binnington, Parayko to play for gold at Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Binnington and Colton Parayko are going for gold!<\/p>\n<p>Team Canada advanced to the gold medal game with a 3-2 win over Team Finland in Friday&#8217;s semifinals. They&#8217;ll face the United States on Sunday at 7:10 a.m. in the last matchup of the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 (NBC, Peacock).<\/p>\n<p>Binnington made 15 saves in net, but was perfect on 5-on-5 play as both goals came in special teams situations. He is 4-0 at this Winter Games with a 1.90 goals-against average, .958 save percentage and one shutout. Parayko logged 15:12 in the game and has been a consistent blue line presence all tournament for the Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>While this guarantees at least two Blues will return home with a medal, there&#8217;s a chance for a third as well. Dalibor Dvorsky will compete for bronze with Team Slovakia following their 6-2 loss to Team USA in the semis. They will face Finland on Saturday at 1:40 p.m. in the third-place matchup (USA, Peacock).<\/p>\n<p>Dvorsky was held scoreless Friday, his first game without a point all Olympics. The 20-year-old has been one of the top young players in the Olympics, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/blues\/news\/dvorsky-sets-blues-nhl-rookie-olympic-points-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">setting both an NHL and Blues record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For schedule information and stat updates for all the Blues players at the Winter Games, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/blues\/team\/winter-olympics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stlouisblues.com\/olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan Binnington and Colton Parayko are going for gold! Team Canada advanced to the gold medal game with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120],"tags":[71,5,4,534,84,5285,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-465105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-blues","8":"tag-blues","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-st-louis","12":"tag-st-louis-blues","13":"tag-stlouis","14":"tag-stlouisblues"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116105596529648286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465105","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=465105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}