{"id":851596,"date":"2026-08-09T08:32:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T08:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/851596\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T08:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T08:32:31","slug":"canada-whips-u-s-8-1-to-win-hlinka-gretzky-cup-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/851596\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada whips U.S. 8-1 to win Hlinka Gretzky Cup \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDMONTON \u2013 Brock England, Maddox Schultz and Liam Pue each scored twice, the power play went 3-for-5, and Canada whipped the United States 7-1 to win the Hlinka Gretzky Cup on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Benjamin Veitch and Jaakko Wycisk also scored for Canada, who outshot the Americans 45-17, and led 3-1 after the first period and 6-1 heading into the third at Rogers Place.<\/p>\n

Landon DuPont had four assists for the gold-medal winners.<\/p>\n

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Gunnar Conboy scored a power-play goal for the Americans, who went 1-for-5 on the power play.<\/p>\n

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POKE CHECKS: Finland scored twice in the third period to defeat Slovakia 3-2 in Saturday\u2019s bronze-medal game. Roni Kuukasjarvi scored the winner on a power play at 13:27 of the third period \u2026 Sweden scored twice in the final period to beat Germany 4-2 in Saturday\u2019s seventh-place game. Oliver Sundberg and Olle Zetterstedt each scored twice for Sweden.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 8, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2013 Brock England, Maddox Schultz and Liam Pue each scored twice, the power play went 3-for-5, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-851596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851596","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=851596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}