{"id":493635,"date":"2026-02-23T07:25:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/493635\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T07:25:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:25:31","slug":"suzuki-and-canada-defeat-finland-advance-to-gold-medal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/493635\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzuki and Canada defeat Finland, advance to gold medal game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2013 Nick Suzuki and Team Canada are going for gold on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In the first of Friday\u2019s two semifinal games, Canada defeated Finland 3-2 in a hotly contested opening matchup. With the Finns leading 2-0 at the start of the second period, Canada went on to score three unanswered goals to advance to the tournament final.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan MacKinnon scored the game-winning goal with 36 seconds remaining in regulation, in a game which Canada led in shots, 39-17.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Suzuki had 14:36 of ice time in the win.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Kapanen dressed as the 13th forward for Finland, but did not play.<\/p>\n<p>For more stats, check out the official Olympic game summary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/milano-cortina-2026\/results\/iho\/m\/team6-------------\/sfnl\/000200--\/team-playbyplay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Canada roster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2013 Nick Suzuki and Team Canada are going for gold on Sunday. In the first of Friday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-493635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493635","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=493635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}