{"id":464211,"date":"2026-02-12T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/464211\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T13:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:00:09","slug":"the-key-points-to-have-a-great-olympic-tournament-at-milano-cortina-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/464211\/","title":{"rendered":"The key points to have a great Olympic tournament at Milano Cortina 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milano Cortina also marks the first time since 2014, the year that Lundqvist\u2019s Sweden won silver in Sochi, that the Games will feature NHL players.<\/p>\n<p>This, Lundqvist says, poses its own challenges for teams alongside the spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou only have a few days to prepare going into an Olympic tournament,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s different compared to maybe other athletes, where they prepare for months. Here you have players playing in the NHL, they come over here and get two practices, a couple of meetings, and then off you go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is critical those first couple of days to get on the same page and both understand but also accept your roles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have some players that might have a bigger role back in the NHL for their team, but now you&#8217;re on a national team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sweden begin their Winter Olympic Games against hosts Italy on Wednesday (11 February).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milano Cortina also marks the first time since 2014, the year that Lundqvist\u2019s Sweden won silver in Sochi,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-464211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}