{"id":467479,"date":"2026-02-14T03:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/467479\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T03:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:33:06","slug":"logan-thompson-secures-first-ever-olympic-win-with-24-saves-for-team-canada-in-5-1-victory-over-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/467479\/","title":{"rendered":"Logan Thompson secures first-ever Olympic win with 24 saves for Team Canada in 5-1 victory over Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Logan Thompson picked up with Team Canada where he left off with the Washington Capitals.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old netminder secured his first-ever Olympic win in a 24-save effort for the Canadians on Friday. Thompson made 24 total saves in the 5-1 victory over Switzerland, pushing Canada atop Group A with two wins from two games.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson\u2019s best save of the game was perhaps his first, robbing Nino Niederreiter on a 3-on-1 Swiss chance with just 1:24 elapsed from the first period.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of Thompson\u2019s efforts in goal, Canada was pushed to the victory by goals from Connor McDavid, Thomas Harley, Macklin Celebrini, Sidney Crosby, and Nathan MacKinnon. Thompson\u2019s Capitals teammate, Tom Wilson, <a href=\"https:\/\/russianmachineneverbreaks.com\/2026\/02\/13\/tom-wilson-first-olympic-point-assist-thomas-harley-goal-canada\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">notched his first-career Olympic point on Harley\u2019s first-period tally<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The lone goal that Thompson did concede came on a Swiss power play in the first frame. After making a save through traffic, Thompson could not corral the rebound, which was slammed home by Pius Suter. He was spotless in the second and third periods.<\/p>\n<p>With Canada cruising to another easy win, their good feelings were put on hold for a moment when Swiss forward Kevin Fiala needed to be stretchered off the ice following a collision with Wilson. Fiala is one of Switzerland\u2019s top players and a previous 85-point scorer in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Kings winger seemingly tried to throw a counter hit on Wilson, and both players went tumbling hard to the ice along the boards with Wilson\u2019s full weight landing on Fiala\u2019s left leg.<\/p>\n<p>While Thompson ends Friday with a win, the Canadians will likely return to St. Louis Blues backstop Jordan Binnington for their final group game against France on Sunday. Binnington made 26 saves in a 5-0 shutout of Czechia on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Canada will need just one point against the French to secure the top spot in Group A, heading into the knockout stages of the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Logan Thompson picked up with Team Canada where he left off with the Washington Capitals. The 28-year-old netminder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-467479","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\/467479","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=467479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}