CANADA 4, CZECHIA 3 (OT)<\/p>\n
The craziest game of the Olympics so far ended with an overtime victory for Team Canada and Lightning coach Jon Cooper.<\/p>\n
Vegas forward Mitch Marner scored the game-winning goal 1:22 into 3-on-3 overtime, burying a backhand chance to send Team Canada to the semifinals with the 4-3 win.<\/p>\n
Canada forward Connor McDavid forced a turnover in Czechia\u2019s defensive zone and then set up youngster Macklin Celebrini for his fifth goal of the Olympics 3:05 into the game for a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Czechia tied it 1-1 on a backdoor pass to Lukas Sedlak from Roman Cervenka before the ninth minute after defenseman Radko Gudas broke up a Canada neutral zone play. Czechia then became the first team to take a lead over Canada with David Pastrnak\u2019s one-timer on the power play from the left circle with five minutes left in the opening frame.<\/p>\n
Canada got its tying goal on the power play in period two, as Nathan MacKinnon\u2019s shot fooled Czechia goalie Lukas Dostal through a screen.<\/p>\n
Palat accepted a drop pass on a 3-on-2 rush with 7:42 remaining in the game and fired a shot inside the left goalpost to make it 3-2 against the top-seeded Canadians, but Montreal Canadiens forward Nick Suzuki found the tying goal with 3:27 left in regulation by deflecting a point shot through the pads of Dostal.<\/p>\n
Marner ended the game shortly into overtime, bursting through the Czechia defense and roofing a backhand shot into the top right corner of the net for the win.<\/p>\n
Celebrini led Canada with a goal and two assists, and McDavid had two assists. Cervenka led Czechia with two helpers.<\/p>\n
Scoring Summary<\/p>\n
First period<\/p>\n
CAN 1, CZE 0<\/p>\n
3:05 Macklin Celebrini (5) – Connor McDavid<\/p>\n
CAN 1, CZE 1<\/p>\n
8:34 Lukas Sedlak (1) – Roman Cervenka, Radko Gudas<\/p>\n
CZE 2, CAN 1<\/p>\n
14:49 David Pastrnak (2) – Filip Hronek, Cervenka – PP<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: CAN 11, CZE 10<\/p>\n
Second period<\/p>\n
CZE 2, CAN 2<\/p>\n
12:16 Nathan MacKinnon (3) – McDavid, Celebrini – PP<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: CAN 17, CZE 5<\/p>\n
Third period<\/p>\n
CZE 3, CAN 2<\/p>\n
12:18 Ondrej Palat (1) – Martin Necas, Tomas Hertl<\/p>\n
CZE 3, CAN 3<\/p>\n
16:33 Nick Suzuki (2) – Devon Toews, Seth Jarvis<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: CAN 11, CZE 8<\/p>\n
Overtime<\/p>\n
1:22 Mitch Marner (1) – Celebrini, Thomas Harley<\/p>\n
Total shots: CAN 40, CZE 23<\/p>\n
TBL Player Summary<\/p>\n
Brandon Hagel (CAN): 15:51 TOI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CANADA 4, CZECHIA 3 (OT) The craziest game of the Olympics so far ended with an overtime victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-160564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}