{"id":488215,"date":"2026-02-20T18:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/488215\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T18:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:41:07","slug":"mackinnon-scores-late-canada-tops-finland-to-advance-to-gold-medal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/488215\/","title":{"rendered":"MacKinnon scores late, Canada tops Finland to advance to gold medal game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Bennett and Shea Theodore scored for Canada, and Jordan Binnington made 15 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Connor McDavid, who was serving as captain, had two assists. Canada captain Sidney Crosby did not play because of a lower-body injury sustained in the win against Czechia.<\/p>\n<p>Sebatian Aho and Erik Haula scored for Finland, the No. 4 seed, which will play for bronze here Saturday (2:40 p.m. ET; Peacock, USA, ICI Tele, CBC Gem, CBC [JIP]). Juuse Saros made 36 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Theodore tied the game 2-2 at 10:34 of the third with a rising slapper through traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Reinhart made it 2-1 with a power-play goal at 14:20 of the second. Defenseman Cale Makar walked the blue line before flicking a wrist shot into traffic. Reinhart deflected it with his stick, causing the puck to change direction and skirt past Saros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Bennett and Shea Theodore scored for Canada, and Jordan Binnington made 15 saves. Connor McDavid, who was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-488215","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\/488215","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=488215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}