{"id":487335,"date":"2026-02-20T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/487335\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:27:08","slug":"team-usa-exhibiting-survival-of-fittest-on-and-off-ice-heading-into-olympic-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/487335\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA exhibiting survival of fittest on and off ice heading into Olympic semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/j-t-miller-8476468\" title=\"J.T. Miller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">J.T. Miller<\/a> ran into Laila Edwards of the U.S. women\u2019s hockey team, which was about to play Team Canada in the gold medal game Thursday. He gave her a fist bump, wished her luck and told her to enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, going to be an awesome environment to be in,\u201d Miller said. \u201cI think I\u2019m going to head over to the game and watch. That\u2019ll be fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Miller spoke outside the main gate, Team Finland center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/sebastian-aho-8478427\" title=\"Sebastian Aho\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Aho<\/a> walked by. The Finns play Team Canada in the semifinals Friday (10:40 a.m. ET; Peacock, USA [JIP], ICI Tele, CBC Gem, RDS2, CBC, SN [JIP]).<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s it like being in such close proximity to your competitors with so much on the line?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, it\u2019s all business,\u201d Miller said. \u201cI think that everybody knows what we\u2019re here to do and understands the beast that we\u2019re dealing with here, so [you&#8217;ve] just got to get used to that. It\u2019s part of the deal. I think everybody\u2019s comfortable in that situation. I think that\u2019s when we can lean on our teammates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Americans will hold a morning skate and go over Slovakia in more detail before the game Friday. Win, and they advance to the gold medal game Sunday. Lose, and they play for bronze Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s another Game 7 tomorrow,\u201d Werenski said, \u201cand we understand what\u2019s at stake.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forward J.T. Miller ran into Laila Edwards of the U.S. women\u2019s hockey team, which was about to play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-487335","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\/487335","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=487335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}