{"id":478294,"date":"2026-02-13T23:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478294\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T23:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:12:07","slug":"mackinnon-mcdavid-each-has-3-points-canada-tops-switzerland-to-win-group-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478294\/","title":{"rendered":"MacKinnon, McDavid each has 3 points, Canada tops Switzerland to win Group A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Canada on the power play, McDavid took a slick cross-ice pass from MacKinnon and fired a wrist shot from the right face-off circle off Schmid\u2019s hip and into the goal to make it 1-0 at 5:45.<\/p>\n<p>Canada then made it 2-0 at 10:54. McDavid took a pass from Tom Wilson and found Harley all alone in the center of the ice, where the defenseman beat Schmid five-hole.<\/p>\n<p>With his six points in two games, McDavid became the first player to have five or more points through his first two career Olympic games involving NHL players.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland made it 2-1 at 12:42 by converting on its first power play of the game. Sven Andrighetto took a one-timer that Thompson tried to glove, but the puck went off his wrist, hit the crossbar and fell to the feet of Suter, who banged the rebound home.<\/p>\n<p>It was first goal Canada allowed in an Olympics with NHL players since the quarterfinal round in 2014 &#8212; a span of 237:01.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Canada on the power play, McDavid took a slick cross-ice pass from MacKinnon and fired a wrist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-478294","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\/478294","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=478294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}