{"id":473055,"date":"2026-02-13T20:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473055\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T20:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:19:07","slug":"czechia-scores-4-straight-rallies-past-france-at-milano-cortina-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473055\/","title":{"rendered":"Czechia scores 4 straight, rallies past France at Milano Cortina Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filip Chlapik<\/a> gave Czechia a 5-3 lead 1:05 into the third period, scoring after Necas’ shot bounced off Neckar and went behind him, where Chlapik put it in.<\/p>\n

Roman Cervenka<\/a>, the Czechia captain, made it 6-3, scoring with a backhand on a breakaway at 1:53. Neckar was replaced by Junca after the goal.<\/p>\n

“Obviously we were not happy with the way we played in the first,” Bellemare said. “Bunch of passes that we were trying; that’s not the way we can play with those guys. Too much talent. \u2026 At that level, with that type of talent on the other side, you make those mistakes, you’re going to pay the price.”<\/p>\n

Boudon scored on a rebound on the power play at 1:01 of the second period to pull France within 2-1. He then tied the game 2-2 at 4:04, scoring on a 2-on-1 set up by a turnover he created in the defensive zone.<\/p>\n

Hugo Gallet<\/a> made it 3-2 at 5:54, scoring 1:50 after France had tied it.<\/p>\n

“I think that’s the moment which [is] going to stay in my mind all my life long,” Neckar said. “When Gallet scored his goal, and we were [up] 3-2, I was really thinking, ‘Is the dream going to really happen?’ At the end of the of the day, no, but I’m really happy how we battle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Necas gave Czechia a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal at 5:56 of the first. He took a cross-ice pass from Pastrnak and one-timed the puck past Neckar.<\/p>\n

Kempny increased the lead to 2-0 at 13:04 with a slap shot from inside the blue line.<\/p>\n

Each team concludes group play Sunday, with Czechia playing Switzerland (6:10 a.m. ET; Peacock, CNBC, ICI TOU.TV, CBC Gem, SN, RDS) and France facing Canada (10:40 a.m. ET; Peacock, USA, ICI T\u00e9l\u00e9, CBC Gem, RDS2, CBC).<\/p>\n

“We’re just trying to get better every game,” Necas said. “It’s a short tournament. Hopefully we get good rest tomorrow and the game against the Swiss.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filip Chlapik gave Czechia a 5-3 lead 1:05 into the third period, scoring after Necas’ shot bounced off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-473055","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\/473055","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=473055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}