{"id":485104,"date":"2026-02-19T10:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/485104\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:50:13","slug":"underdog-canada-faces-u-s-for-olympic-hockey-gold-curling-semifinals-also-on-tap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/485104\/","title":{"rendered":"Underdog Canada faces U.S. for Olympic hockey gold; curling semifinals also on tap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN \u2014 Defending Olympic champion Canada enters today\u2019s women\u2019s hockey gold-medal game against the United States as a significant underdog on Day 13 of the Milan Cortina Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadians have lost seven straight to the United States, including a 5-0 preliminary-round defeat last week.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Captain Marie-Philip Poulin leads Canada into the matchup after scoring twice in a 2-1 semifinal win over Switzerland, becoming the all-time Olympic women\u2019s hockey goals leader.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the eighth Olympic final between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Homan\u2019s Canadian rink closes out its women\u2019s curling round robin against South Korea, tied for third at 5-3 and fighting for one of the final semifinal spots. Brad Jacobs\u2019 men\u2019s team, at 7-1, has already earned a spot in today\u2019s semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>At the oval in Milan, Daniel Hall and David La Rue chase an Olympic medal in the men\u2019s 1,500-metre long-track speedskating final.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 19, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN \u2014 Defending Olympic champion Canada enters today\u2019s women\u2019s hockey gold-medal game against the United States as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,122867,44,142248,944,14094,65573],"class_list":["post-485104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-marie-philip-poulin","tag-news","tag-olympic-medal","tag-the-canadian-press","tag-the-united-states","tag-womens-hockey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485104","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=485104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}