{"id":485946,"date":"2026-02-19T19:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/485946\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:19:07","slug":"canadas-resiliency-united-states-defensive-strength-among-reasons-olympic-favorites-reached-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/485946\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s resiliency, United States&#8217; defensive strength among reasons Olympic favorites reached semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finland&#8217;s challenge against Canada, Slovakia&#8217;s chances against the United States, surprises, disappointments and a Lady Byng Trophy winner at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 all are featured on the latest episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/pod.link\/1479554969\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;NHL @TheRink&#8221;<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Co-hosts Dan Rosen and Shawn P. Roarke, who are in Milan covering the Olympics for NHL.com, got together Thursday, an off day for the men&#8217;s tournament, to preview the semifinals and digest what was an incredible day of hockey in the quarterfinals Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Team Finland and Team Canada play in the first semifinal game at Santagiulia Arena (10:40 a.m. ET; Peacock, USA [JIP], ICI Tele, CBC Gem, CBC, SN [JIP], RDS2), followed by Team USA against Team Slovakia in the second game (3:10 p.m. ET; Peacock, NBC, ICI Tele, CBC Gem, CBC [JIP], TSN [JIP], RDS2).<\/p>\n<p>Rosen and Roarke talked about how impressed they were with Team Czechia in the quarterfinals, but also how disappointed they were with how the Czechs handled a 3-2 lead late in the third period against Team Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finland&#8217;s challenge against Canada, Slovakia&#8217;s chances against the United States, surprises, disappointments and a Lady Byng Trophy winner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-485946","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\/485946","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=485946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}