{"id":477390,"date":"2026-02-15T23:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477390\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T23:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:24:08","slug":"olesen-has-3-points-team-denmark-holds-off-team-latvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/477390\/","title":{"rendered":"Olesen has 3 points, Team Denmark holds off Team Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latvia made it 3-1 at 19:44 when Zile scored on a shot from the blue line through traffic during a delayed penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Tralmaks made it 3-2 at 6:41 of the second period, finding space at the far post to tap in a pass through the crease by Zile from the left boards.<\/p>\n<p>Latvia pushed for the tying goal, but Dans Locmelis hit the crossbar during a power play with 3:32 remaining in the second period, and Tralmaks hit the goal post on the first shift of the third period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We dug ourselves a hole and then we didn&#8217;t capitalize on the chances to tie it up,&#8221; Latvia forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/teddy-blueger-8476927\" title=\"Teddy Blueger\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teddy Blueger<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>Andersen held strong as Latvia outshot Denmark 14-6 in the third period, and Olesen scored into an empty net at 17:38 of the third period for the 4-2 final.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s amazing, one of the best goalies in the world,&#8221; Olesen said. &#8220;He&#8217;s calm and steady. We&#8217;re very happy to have him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NOTES: Olesen is the first Denmark player with a multigoal game at an Olympics that included NHL players. &#8230; Latvia forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/zemgus-girgensons-8476878\" title=\"Zemgus Girgensons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zemgus Girgensons<\/a> had an assist on Tralmaks&#8217; goal. It was his fourth in eight career Olympic games, tying him with Sandis Ozolinsh for most among Latvia players at an Olympics featuring NHL players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latvia made it 3-1 at 19:44 when Zile scored on a shot from the blue line through traffic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-477390","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\/477390","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=477390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}