{"id":55191,"date":"2025-05-31T00:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T00:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/55191\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T00:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T00:50:14","slug":"u-s-canada-to-renew-rivalry-in-world-para-hockey-championship-final-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/55191\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S., Canada to renew rivalry in World Para Hockey Championship final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. and Canada will meet in the World Para Hockey Championship final for an eighth consecutive time, with the U.S. aiming to complete an unprecedented sweep.<\/p>\n<p>The gold-medal game in Buffalo is Saturday at 4 p.m. ET, live on <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/sports\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Peacock;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Peacock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. can become the first nation to win the IIHF World Women&#8217;s Hockey title, the IIHF World Men&#8217;s Hockey title and the World Para Hockey title in the same year.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. beat China 6-1 in Friday&#8217;s semifinals on goals from Declan Farmer (two), Jack Wallace (two), Evan Nichols and Josh Pauls. Earlier Friday, Canada topped Czechia 3-0 in the semis.<\/p>\n<p>Canada has outscored its four opponents 30-2. The U.S. has outscored its four opponents 35-4.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Canada beat the U.S. 2-1 in the world championship final, snapping the Americans\u2019 streak of world titles at three and overall winning streak at 41 games dating to October 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Canada had lost more than 20 games in a row to the Americans before last year&#8217;s gold-medal game. Canada beat the U.S. again in their most recent meeting before these worlds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. and Canada will meet in the World Para Hockey Championship final for an eighth consecutive time,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[19,11555,11557,5,11556,946],"class_list":{"0":"post-55191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-championship-final","10":"tag-evan-nichols","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-jack-wallace","13":"tag-u-s"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114599706932817369","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55191","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=55191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}