{"id":677967,"date":"2026-05-18T18:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/677967\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:14:08","slug":"canada-catches-fire-in-third-to-beat-denmark-5-1-remain-perfect-at-hockey-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/677967\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada catches fire in third to beat Denmark 5-1, remain perfect at hockey worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRIBOURG \u2014 Porter Martone had a goal and an assist, Sidney Crosby had four assists and Canada defeated Denmark 5-1 for its third straight win at the ice hockey world championship on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Vilardi, Denton Mateychuk, Ryan O&#8217;Reilly and Parker Wotherspoon also scored for Canada, with Macklin Celebrini dishing out two assists.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Nick Olesen had Denmark&#8217;s lone goal.<\/p>\n<p>The game was scoreless until Martone got things going 28 seconds into the third period. Vilardi and Mateychuk made it a 3-0 game by the 3:33 mark.<\/p>\n<p>Olesen scored at 10:12 but O&#8217;Reilly quickly answered back 1:37 later to restore Canada&#8217;s three-goal lead. Wotherspoon sealed the scoring with 29 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p>Canada (3-0) leads Group A with nine points, with Denmark (0-3) sits in last. The Canadians will next face Norway on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 18, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRIBOURG \u2014 Porter Martone had a goal and an assist, Sidney Crosby had four assists and Canada defeated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,8267,78780,7729,249197,30737,44,249198,40767,12364,249196,20710,944],"class_list":["post-677967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-denmark","tag-denton-mateychuk","tag-gabriel-vilardi","tag-ice-hockey-world-championship","tag-macklin-celebrini","tag-news","tag-nick-olesen","tag-parker-wotherspoon","tag-porter-martone","tag-ryan-o39reilly","tag-sidney-crosby","tag-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677967","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=677967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}