{"id":466698,"date":"2026-02-13T17:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/466698\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:55:09","slug":"andersen-wont-start-for-denmark-against-u-s-in-olympic-preliminary-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/466698\/","title":{"rendered":"Andersen won&#8217;t start for Denmark against U.S. in Olympic preliminary round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/frederik-andersen-8475883\" title=\"Frederik Andersen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frederik Andersen<\/a> will not start for Team Denmark against Team USA at Santagiulia Arena on Saturday (3:10 p.m. ET; Peacock, USA, ICI T\u00e9l\u00e9, CBC Gem, TSN) in a Group C preliminary round game at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to start Andersen tomorrow,&#8221; Denmark coach Mikael Gath told NHL.com after practice Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Why would the Danes not play their No. 1 goaltender against the Americans?<\/p>\n<p>Probably to save him for a more winnable game, hoping to put themselves in a better position for the single-elimination portion of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Andersen made 23 saves in Denmark&#8217;s 3-1 loss to Team Germany across the city at Rho Arena on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Danes are heavy underdogs against the U.S., and the game is at 9:10 p.m. local time Saturday. They must go back to Rho Arena to play Team Latvia at 7:10 p.m. local time Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 12 teams in the tournament are divided into three groups. Each team plays three preliminary round games within its group. The winners of each group and the best second-place finisher receive byes into the quarterfinals, while the rest are seeded for the qualification round. The winners in the qualification round advance to the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Germany and the United States are tied for the lead in Group C, each with a regulation win. Denmark and Latvia each has a regulation loss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a bad schedule,&#8221; Gath said. &#8220;We&#8217;re playing 9 o&#8217;clock against U.S., and then we play early against Latvia the day after, and we have three good goalies.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN &#8212; Frederik Andersen will not start for Team Denmark against Team USA at Santagiulia Arena on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-466698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466698","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=466698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}