{"id":192667,"date":"2026-02-25T06:38:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/192667\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T06:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:38:29","slug":"anaheim-ducks-player-performances-at-the-2026-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/192667\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks\u2019 Player Performances at the 2026 Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five Anaheim Ducks represented their home countries at the 2026 Winter Olympics. At the conclusion of the tournament, two medals were brought home to Anaheim. <a href=\"https:\/\/thehockeywriters.com\/docs\/radko-gudas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radko Gudas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thehockeywriters.com\/docs\/lukas-dostal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lukas Dostal<\/a> joined Czechia, Damian Clara played for Italy, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehockeywriters.com\/docs\/mikael-granlund\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mikael Granlund<\/a> represented Finland, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thehockeywriters.com\/docs\/jackson-lacombe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson LaCombe<\/a> was on the United States\u2019 roster. Let\u2019s take a look at each player\u2019s performance and how their countries fared in the Winter Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Czechia \u2013 Radko Gudas &amp; Lukas Dostal<\/p>\n<p>Defenseman Gudas and goaltender Dostal seem to be staples of the Czech national team. The pair also made the roster for the country\u2019s 2024 World Championship gold medal. While the nation\u2019s team did not medal at the Olympics, they made it\u00a0to the quarterfinals,\u00a0where they fell to Team Canada in a close 4-3 game. Dostal, in particular, fought hard in that game, but it was not enough to advance in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Gudas was a physical presence, as always, and tallied one point in five games with an assist. He had four penalty minutes and ended the tournament with a plus-3 rating. Czechia values Gudas for his defensive skills, dominant physicality, and veteran presence. He has appeared in six international competitions with the country and was selected as an <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/czehockey\/status\/2020566511610393007\" rel=\"nofollow\">alternate captain for this tournament<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five Anaheim Ducks represented their home countries at the 2026 Winter Olympics. At the conclusion of the tournament,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-192667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}