{"id":493489,"date":"2026-02-21T00:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/493489\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T00:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:05:07","slug":"american-forward-thompson-leaves-semifinal-blowout-against-slovakia-for-precautionary-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/493489\/","title":{"rendered":"American forward Thompson leaves semifinal blowout against Slovakia for precautionary reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">American forward Tage Thompson did not play the third period of Friday\u2019s semifinal win against Slovakia for precautionary reasons. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thompson had a goal and an assist in just over 10 minutes of ice time before exiting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Per The Athletic\u2019s Michael Russo, Team USA head coach Mike Sullivan said that Thompson suffered a lower-body injury but he expects the forward to be available for the gold medal game against Canada on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 28-year-old Phoenix native has three goals and one assist over five games at Milano Cortina 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thompson has recorded 30 goals and 29 assists over 57 games with the Buffalo Sabres in 2025-26, his ninth season in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thanks to their convincing 6-2 win over Slovakia in the semifinal, the United States will now play Canada in the gold medal game Sunday morning to close Milano Cortina 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American forward Tage Thompson did not play the third period of Friday\u2019s semifinal win against Slovakia for precautionary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[16159,64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-493489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493489","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=493489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}