{"id":474934,"date":"2026-02-14T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/474934\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T18:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:08:07","slug":"slovakia-fall-in-final-olympic-preliminary-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/474934\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovakia Fall In Final Olympic Preliminary Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slovakia suffered their first Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 setback on Saturday, falling 5-3 to Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Pospisil, who centered Milos Kelemen and Pavel Regenda for the first two games Slovakia played, was not in the lineup against Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Through his first two games at the Olympics, Pospisil averaged 14:26 of ice time and put four shots on net. Both games were Slovak victories.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Slovakia received goals from Juraj Slafkovsky, Martin Gernat, and Dalibor Dvorsky while netminder Samuel Hlavaj made 46 saves on 51 shots. Sweden&#8217;s Joel Eriksson Ek, Adrian Kempe, Elias Pettersson (2), and Lucas Raymond scored and Jacob Markstrom made 29 saves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slovakia suffered their first Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 setback on Saturday, falling 5-3 to Sweden. Martin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-474934","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\/474934","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=474934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}