{"id":472095,"date":"2026-02-11T04:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472095\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T04:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:39:08","slug":"seven-of-your-dallas-stars-hit-the-ice-at-the-2026-milan-cortina-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472095\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven of your Dallas Stars hit the ice at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/8480036\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miro Heiskanen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/8478449\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roope Hintz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/8476902\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Esa Lindell<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/8478420\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mikko Rantanen<\/a> are in Italy! The Finntastic Four will represent Team Finland on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first six players selected by Finland in June, Heiskanen will make his second Olympic appearance after scoring a goal in five games at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Hintz, who hails from Nokia, represented Finland at the 4 Nations Face-Off and won gold with Finland at the World Juniors in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Much like his Stars teammate Heiskanen, Lindell was chosen for Finland\u2019s team in June. The 31-year-old from Vantaa had five points (two goals, three assists) to help Finland win the 2014 WJC, and he also won gold at the 2022 World Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Rantanen, from Nousiainen, will play at the Olympics for the first time and will dawn the &#8216;A&#8217; as alternate captain for Team Finland. He has already won gold with the 2016 WJC team and silver at the 2016 World Championship.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about Team Finland click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/topic\/olympics\/finland-2026-winter-olympic-hockey-team-at-a-glance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miro Heiskanen, Roope Hintz, Esa Lindell, and Mikko Rantanen are in Italy! The Finntastic Four will represent Team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-472095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}