{"id":457020,"date":"2026-02-06T05:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/457020\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T05:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:51:09","slug":"sanheim-ready-to-do-anything-to-help-team-canada-win-gold-at-olympics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/457020\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanheim ready to do \u2018anything\u2019 to help Team Canada win gold at Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

He’s impressed his teammates, some of whom will be his Olympic foes starting Thursday, when Canada faces Czechia (10:40 a.m. ET; Peacock, USA, CBC Gem, CBC).<\/p>\n

“The thing about Sanny was, I didn’t know, honestly, that he was that good, until I joined the [Flyers],” said goalie Dan Vladar<\/a>, who could start for Czechia in the Olympic opener. “So once I joined the team, I can actually see how good of a player he is, how many minutes he can play every single night, and how this team can rely on him. … Just the way he holds on to the puck and he calms the plays down, it’s unreal.”<\/p>\n

Sanheim, Vladar and Tocchet will be joined in Italy by defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen<\/a>, who will play for Team Finland.<\/p>\n

It will be Ristolainen’s first time playing internationally for Finland since the 2016 World Cup of Hockey. He made the team for the 4 Nations Face-Off but missed the tournament because of an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n

There have been injury questions surrounding Ristolainen this season as well, as his season debut didn’t come until Dec. 16 after he had surgery March 26 to repair a ruptured right triceps tendon. He missed six games because of an upper-body injury sustained Jan. 14 and then left a game against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Jan. 28 because of a lower-body injury after playing two shifts.<\/p>\n

But he scored his first goal of the season in a 4-2 win against the Washington Capitals on Tuesday and has played at least 20 minutes three straight games.<\/p>\n

“Very excited,” Ristolainen said. “Having some injuries in the past, so it feels extra special being healthy and able to go.”<\/p>\n

It’s special for all four of the Flyers’ Olympic representatives, who will fly to Italy together Saturday. It will be the last time they enjoy things together for a few weeks.<\/p>\n

“Once we land, horse blinders for me,” Vladar said. “No friends.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He’s impressed his teammates, some of whom will be his Olympic foes starting Thursday, when Canada faces Czechia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-457020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}