{"id":492291,"date":"2026-02-22T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/492291\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:02:09","slug":"usa-canada-both-have-impressive-overtime-history-in-2026-winter-olympics-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/492291\/","title":{"rendered":"USA, Canada both have impressive overtime history in 2026 Winter Olympics hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/olympics\/news\/usa-canada-overtime-history-2026-winter-olympics-hockey\/33e851ebf4b94020f854492a?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:USA, Canada both have impressive overtime history in 2026 Winter Olympics hockey;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">USA, Canada both have impressive overtime history in 2026 Winter Olympics hockey<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Team USA and Canada have both known overtime at these 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Will they see OT again in the gold medal game? There&#8217;s certainly a chance.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the U.S. scored in the first period with Matt Boldy. Cale Makar equalized in the second period for Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on what happens in the third period, there could be more overtime.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/olympics\/news\/who-scored-team-usa-first-goal-matt-boldy-highlight-reel-play-olympics\/763adbf33a81020b02c854ba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Matt Boldy&#039;s Olympic goal was the stuff of legend;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Matt Boldy&#8217;s Olympic goal was the stuff of legend<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How has Canada done in OT?<\/p>\n<p>Canada has played two overtime games just to reach the gold medal game.<\/p>\n<p>They beat Czechia in overtime in the quarterfinal on a Mitch Marner backhand goal.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>They then beat Finland in the semifinal on a Nathan MacKinnon shot from the left slot.<\/p>\n<p>How has USA done in OT?<\/p>\n<p>Team USA needed overtime in the quarterfinal, too.<\/p>\n<p>Taking on Sweden, Quinn Hughes found a way to scoring position and slotted it home for the walk-off win.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/olympics\/news\/eileen-gu-responds-hate\u2014gold-medal-olympics-china\/f0967136c669dbc4247bd09d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Eileen Gu responds to hate only way she knows how;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Eileen Gu responds to hate only way she knows how<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is overtime different in the gold medal game?<\/p>\n<p>Only a little bit. It&#8217;s still 3-on-3.<\/p>\n<p>The only difference is they put 20 minutes on the clock.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Can there be a shootout?<\/p>\n<p>Not in the gold medal game.<\/p>\n<p>They would just put more time on the clock and keep playing.<\/p>\n<p>But if these teams get to overtime, it&#8217;s highly improbable that the skill level of these guys at 3-on-3 would last 20 minutes without a goal.<\/p>\n<p>More Olympics news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USA, Canada both have impressive overtime history in 2026 Winter Olympics hockey originally appeared on The Sporting News.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13541,49,45339,48,30126,44236,8436,48001,44,197637,12430,58784],"class_list":{"0":"post-492291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-2026-winter-olympics","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-cale-makar","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-gold-medal","13":"tag-matt-boldy","14":"tag-mitch-marner","15":"tag-nathan-mackinnon","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-overtime-games","18":"tag-quinn-hughes","19":"tag-team-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492291","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=492291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}