{"id":483789,"date":"2026-02-18T20:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483789\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:57:09","slug":"czechia-played-with-our-heart-in-near-upset-of-canada-at-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483789\/","title":{"rendered":"Czechia ‘played with our heart’ in near upset of Canada at Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Team Canada had won 13 consecutive games in Olympic tournaments involving NHL players, including seven in single elimination. Was the streak about to end?<\/p>\n

No.<\/p>\n

Nick Suzuki<\/a> tied the game 3-3 with 3:27 to go in the third, reaching out to the right with his stick blade and deflecting a shot by Devon Toews<\/a>. The puck dropped and slipped between the pads of goalie Lukas Dostal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Czechs still had a chance. Necas took off on a breakaway, but Binnington stopped him with his right pad with about 1:10 left.<\/p>\n

“I was kind of tired, and they’re chasing me,” Necas said. “I tried to go backhand five hole and kind of missed the window there.”<\/p>\n

The game went to 3-on-3 overtime, and Mitch Marner<\/a> ended it at 1:22 with a beautiful backhand.<\/p>\n

Several Czechs buried their heads in their gloves on the bench.<\/p>\n

“I mean, we were four minutes away from beating [an] unbelievable team and [going] further,” Palat said. “We didn’t. They scored, and then we couldn’t hold onto the lead. Too bad, but I’m proud of the team, how we battled against a really good team.”<\/p>\n

So close.<\/p>\n

“When we look back in a couple of days, I’m going to feel proud of the boys,” Dostal said. “Even now, I feel very proud. It’s a mix of emotions, because you feel sad but proud at the same time. Yeah, it hurts. It’s probably going to hurt for a long time, but I’m proud of our group, what we did here.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Canada had won 13 consecutive games in Olympic tournaments involving NHL players, including seven in single elimination.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-483789","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\/483789","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=483789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}