{"id":478216,"date":"2026-02-19T17:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/478216\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:03:11","slug":"team-usa-advances-to-olympic-semifinal-with-2-1-overtime-victory-over-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/478216\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA Advances to Olympic Semifinal With 2-1 Overtime Victory Over Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the 11:03 mark, Quinn Hughes received the puck off an offensive-zone faceoff win and slid a pass to <a href=\"https:\/\/teamusa.usahockey.com\/2026olympics-jackhughes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Hughes<\/a> (Canton, Mich.\/New Jersey Devils) at the point, who sent a one-timer in towards goal that was redirected by <a href=\"https:\/\/teamusa.usahockey.com\/2026olympics-dylanlarkin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Larkin<\/a> (Waterford, Mich.\/Detroit Red Wings) past Sweden netminder Jacob Markstrom for the go-ahead tally.<\/p>\n<p>The one-goal lead held for a majority of the remainder of the contest, until with 1:31 left to play in regulation and Markstrom pulled for an extra attacker, Sweden\u2019s Mika Zibanejad capitalized on a one-timer from the top off the left circle to level the game at one, eventually sending the contest to overtime.<\/p>\n<p>At the 3:27 mark of the extra period, Quinn Hughes carried the puck into the slot and fired a wrist shot off the post and in, advancing Team USA to the semifinals with a 2-1 victory. <a href=\"https:\/\/teamusa.usahockey.com\/2026olympics-mattboldy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Boldy<\/a> (Millis, Mass.\/Minnesota Wild) and <a href=\"https:\/\/teamusa.usahockey.com\/2026olympics-austonmatthews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Auston Matthews<\/a> (Scottsdale, Ariz.\/Toronto Maple Leafs) recorded helpers on the tally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hellebuyck stopped 28 shots to earn the win in goal for the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>NOTES: Team USA outshot Sweden, 40-29 \u2026 The U.S. went 0-2 on the power play while Sweden went 0-1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the 11:03 mark, Quinn Hughes received the puck off an offensive-zone faceoff win and slid a pass&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-478216","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\/478216","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=478216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}