{"id":488607,"date":"2026-02-20T22:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/488607\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T22:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:41:07","slug":"mackinnons-heroics-for-team-canada-at-olympics-send-cole-harbour-into-frenzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/488607\/","title":{"rendered":"MacKinnon&#8217;s heroics for Team Canada at Olympics send Cole Harbour into &#8216;frenzy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLE HARBOUR, Nova Scotia &#8212; Just when you thought our community couldn\u2019t feel better about ourselves, Friday happened.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2010, it was Cole Harbour native Sidney Crosby, one of our own, who scored the &#8220;Golden Goal&#8221; to give Team Canada a 3-2 overtime victory against Team USA in the championship game at the Vancouver Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a moment we\u2019ll all never forget.<\/p>\n<p>Now, 16 years later, we\u2019re heading back to the gold medal game, this time at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 on Sunday (8:10 a.m.; Peacock, NBC, ICI Tele, CBC Gem, CBC, SN [JIP], TSN [JIP], RDS2).<\/p>\n<p>And it was another one of our local kids, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nathan-mackinnon-8477492\" title=\"Nathan MacKinnon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan MacKinnon<\/a>, who proved to be the hero.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the same Nathan MacKinnon, a fellow Cole Harbour native, who grew up idolizing Sid and has become one of his best friends.<\/p>\n<p>It was his dramatic goal with 36 seconds left that gave Team Canada a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/topic\/olympics\/finland-canada-2026-olympics-game-recap-february-20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3-2 victory against Team Finland<\/a> in their Olympic semifinal Friday, giving them a chance to play for gold and sending this entire Halifax area, the province of Nova Scotia, I mean, the entire country of Canada into a euphoric frenzy.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the arena at Cole Harbour Place, there are banners honoring both Sid and Nathan. We are so proud of these kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLE HARBOUR, Nova Scotia &#8212; Just when you thought our community couldn\u2019t feel better about ourselves, Friday happened.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-488607","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\/488607","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=488607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}