{"id":703172,"date":"2026-05-29T23:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/703172\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T23:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T23:30:08","slug":"maple-leafs-prospect-tinus-luc-koblar-leads-norway-to-world-semis-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/703172\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs prospect Tinus Luc Koblar leads Norway to world semis for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norway can thank a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-maple-leafs\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> draft pick for propelling the country to its best showing in the modern era of the world hockey championship.<\/p>\n<p>Leafs prospect Tinus Luc Koblar opened the scoring in the second period before Norway added an empty-netter in a 2-0 win over Latvia in a quarterfinal on Thursday in Fribourg, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>Norway&#8217;s only previous quarterfinals appearances were in 2012 and 2008, both losses. The country placed fourth for its best showing in 1951, but that was a round-robin format.<\/p>\n<p>Koblar, a second-round pick and Toronto&#8217;s first selection last year (64th overall), leads Norway with six goals and three assists in eight games this tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Koblar, 18, had eight goals and six assists in 47 games for Leksands IF in Sweden&#8217;s top league last season.<\/p>\n<p>Norway will face Switzerland, while Canada meets Finland in the semifinals on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norway can thank a Toronto Maple Leafs draft pick for propelling the country to its best showing in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-703172","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\/703172","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=703172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}