{"id":489117,"date":"2026-02-19T02:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/489117\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T02:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:01:07","slug":"quinn-hughes-ot-goal-lifts-united-states-past-sweden-in-olympic-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/489117\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinn Hughes&#8217; OT goal lifts United States past Sweden in Olympic quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedes felt the same. They thought the goal was the lifeline they needed. They were playing the right way, taking it to the Americans in the third period, dominating long stretches of play.<\/p>\n<p>Team USA was on its heels, until Hughes decided otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>It was hard for the losing team to process what happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust empty,\u201d Zibanejad said, struggling with his emotions. \u201cIt\u2019s tough. I thought we pushed the whole third and to get the tying goal and get ourselves to overtime and then to see the puck go in for them and you know it\u2019s over, it\u2019s tough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t much easier for the Americans, said forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/dylan-larkin-8477946\" title=\"Dylan Larkin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Larkin<\/a>, who opened the scoring for the U.S. in the second period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s as nervous as I\u2019ve been ever in a hockey game, I can say,\u201d he said. \u201cJust the way 3-on-3 goes, it\u2019s just being opportunistic. Someone could fall, the puck could bounce, anything could happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI calmed down a lot when I saw Quinny get it and said, \u2018I\u2019m glad we\u2019ve got that guy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Americans bolted off the bench, celebrating a great escape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Swedes felt the same. They thought the goal was the lifeline they needed. They were playing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-489117","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\/489117","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=489117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}