{"id":471404,"date":"2026-02-13T01:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/471404\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T01:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:54:07","slug":"olympics-draisaitls-two-points-help-lead-germany-past-denmark-in-group-c-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/471404\/","title":{"rendered":"OLYMPICS: Draisaitl&#8217;s two points help lead Germany past Denmark in Group C action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILANO &#8212; What a beginning to a new era of German hockey under CAPTAIN Leon Draisaitl.<\/p>\n<p>Donning the &#8216;C&#8217; for his nation for the first time at Milano Cortina 2026, Leon Draisaitl recorded his first-career Olympic goal and tallied an assist on Thursday as Team Germany began its campaign with a 3-1 debut victory over Team Denmark in Group C action at Milano Rho Ice Hockey Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Draisaitl set the tone early by scoring his first goal of the tournament only 23 seconds into regulation before adding a power-play assist on forward Tim St\u00fctzle&#8217;s second goal of the contest with 9:58 left in the second period, which ended up being the final act in Germany&#8217;s opening victory in Milan.<\/p>\n<p>Germany showed just how dangerous they can be with their full squad of NHL superstars available, with the nation&#8217;s new leadership group all helping lead the charge after Draisaitl and St\u00fctzle each posted multiple points and defenceman Moritz Seider recorded a team-high 26:18 in ice time.<\/p>\n<p>Goaltender Philipp Grubauer stopped 36 of 37 shots between the pipes.<\/p>\n<p>Draisaitl &amp; Germany will take on Team Latvia in their next match this Saturday at 4:10 am MST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILANO &#8212; What a beginning to a new era of German hockey under CAPTAIN Leon Draisaitl. Donning the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-471404","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\/471404","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=471404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}