{"id":473337,"date":"2026-02-13T23:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473337\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T23:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:42:07","slug":"olympics-mcdavid-continues-his-dominance-with-three-points-in-5-1-win-over-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473337\/","title":{"rendered":"OLYMPICS: McDavid continues his dominance with three points in 5-1 win over Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILANO &#8212; Unstoppable Connor, unstoppable Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Connor McDavid put in another dominant display for the Red &amp; White after scoring his first Olympic goal and adding two assists for Team Canada in a 5-1 victory over Team Switzerland at the Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena, guaranteeing Canada its place in the Quarter-Finals at Milano Cortina 2026.<\/p>\n<p>McDavid was on another level once again by scoring the opener 5:45 into the first period on the power play before adding two more assists to increase his tournament-leading tally to six points (1G, 5A) through two games &#8212; the most by a Canadian in the first two games of an Olympics involving NHL players.<\/p>\n<p>McDavid&#8217;s line with Nathan MacKinnon (1G, 2A) and Macklin Celebrini (1G, 1A) combined for eight points in the victory that was Canada&#8217;s 12th win in a row at the Olympics with NHL players in attendance, raising their record at the tournament to 2-0-0-0 with a plus-nine goal difference (10-1).<\/p>\n<p>Cale Makar also had two assists, while Logan Thompson stopped 24 of 25 shots in his Olympic debut.<\/p>\n<p>Canada will be back in action this Sunday when they face Team France at 8:40 am MST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILANO &#8212; Unstoppable Connor, unstoppable Canada. Connor McDavid put in another dominant display for the Red &amp; White&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-473337","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\/473337","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=473337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}