{"id":476825,"date":"2026-02-15T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/476825\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:42:10","slug":"kukan-goal-lifts-switzerland-past-czechia-in-ot-clinches-2nd-in-oiympics-group-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/476825\/","title":{"rendered":"Kukan goal lifts Switzerland past Czechia in OT, clinches 2nd in OIympics Group A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meier then gave Switzerland a 2-1 lead with a power-play goal at 18:37, backhanding a rebound in front past Dostal after the goalie made an initial save on Josi\u2019s one-timer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/radim-simek-8480160\" title=\"Radim Simek\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radim Simek<\/a> tied it 2-2 at 6:33 of the third period. Necas collected a loose puck and sent it back to the point, and Simek pounced on a rebound of Chlapik\u2019s redirection in front of the goal crease.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/pius-suter-8480459\" title=\"Pius Suter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pius Suter<\/a> quickly put Switzerland back in front 3-2 at 8:07 from the edge of the right circle for his second goal of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Czechia had what would have been the tying goal waved off at 16:34, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/david-pastrnak-8477956\" title=\"David Pastrnak\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Pastrnak<\/a> was ruled to have interfered with Genoni during a power play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought we battled overall,\u201d Gudas said. \u201cI\u2019m really happy with our effort. Unfortunately, I thought we deserved a little bit of luck, but it\u2019s a tournament that\u2019s short. But if we want to win, we have to go through anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland now awaits its next opponent on Tuesday. Fiala won\u2019t be on the ice, but his importance to the group remains.<\/p>\n<p>NOTES: Kukan became the second defenseman to score in overtime at Olympics with NHL players, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/drew-doughty-8474563\" title=\"Drew Doughty\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Doughty<\/a> (Canada) in 2014. \u2026 Switzerland remained perfect against Czechia at Olympics with NHL players, claiming its third win in as many meetings (2014, 2006).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meier then gave Switzerland a 2-1 lead with a power-play goal at 18:37, backhanding a rebound in front&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-476825","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\/476825","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=476825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}