It’s exciting to see NHL players back in the Olympics for the first time since 2014, bringing a wave of star power to Team Canada.<\/p>\n
Canada kicked off the Olympics on a high note, impressively defeating Czechia 5-0 in their opening match.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, five different Canadian players, including Macklin Celebrini and Nathan MacKinnon, found the back of the net, marking the first Olympic game with NHL players since 2014. Since Czechia is Canada’s main rival in Group A, this strong start is definitely a boost for Team Canada.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Switzerland also made a great start, winning 4-0 against France, setting the stage for an exciting underdog story. Timo Meier scored twice for the Swiss, and goalkeeper Leonardo Genoni earned a shutout with 27 saves.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a look at the box score from Canada\u2019s matchup vs. Switzerland.<\/p>\n
MORE 2026 OLYMPICS:\u00a0Live medal tracker<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Viewer’s guide<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Day-by-day schedule<\/a><\/p>\n Canada vs. Switzerland box score\u00a0123FCanada2125Switzerland1001Canada statsPlayerPositionGAP+\/-TOISam BennettF000010:33Macklin CelebriniF112+315:20Sidney CrosbyF101+115:51Brandon HagelF000016:24Bo HorvatF00009:26Nathan MacKinnonF123+216:28Seth JarvisF00009:19Mitch MarnerF011+116:43Connor McDavidF123+314:22Sam ReinhartF000013:21Mark StoneF000+116:58Nick SuzukiF000013:35Tom WilsonF011+19:43Drew DoughtyD000113:50Thomas HarleyD101+118:13Cale MakarD022+221:55Travis SanheimD000+210:17Colton ParaykoD000+116:58Shea TheodoreD000017:00Devon ToewsD000+217:56GoalieTeamShots facedSavesGoals AllowedSave PercentageLogan ThompsonCAN252410.96Switzerland statsPlayerPositionGAP+\/-TOISven AndrighettoF011-114:57Christoph BertschyF000-27:59Kevin FialaF000020:04Nico HischierF000-121:28Ken JagerF000-28:49Simon KnakF00000Philipp KurashevF000015:09Denis MalginF00002:28Timo MeierF000019:21Nino NiederreiterF000-218:03Damien RiatF000-112:36Sandro SchmidF000-16:50Pius SuterF101018:57Calvin ThurkaufD000-113:39Dean KukanD011-118:02Michael ForaD000012:23Andrea GlauserD00005:31Roman JosiD000-126:44Christian MartiD000-210:03J.J. MoserD000-320:25Jonas SiegenthalerD000-122:10GoalieTeamShots facedSavesGoals AllowedSave PercentageAkira SchmidSUI393450.87<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s exciting to see NHL players back in the Olympics for the first time since 2014, bringing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-467272","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\/467272","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=467272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}