{"id":482071,"date":"2026-02-21T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/482071\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:24:08","slug":"united-states-canada-to-battle-for-gold-medal-106-years-after-1st-olympic-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/482071\/","title":{"rendered":"United States, Canada to battle for gold medal 106 years after 1st Olympic meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One year and two days after they met in the electrifying final of the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off, the most recent of many times they have played each over more than a century on virtually every international stage, the United States and Canada are set to make more hockey history.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 106 years after the two nations faced off at the Games of the VIIth Olympiad in Antwerp, Belgium, a white-hot rivalry will see its heat turned up another few degrees in Sunday\u2019s gold medal game of the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 (8:10 a.m. ET; Peacock, NBC, ICI Tele, CBC Gem, CBC, SN [JIP], TSN [JIP], RDS2).<\/p>\n<p>This will be the 20th time in history that the U.S. and Canada have met on the Olympic rink, the sixth involving NHL player participation. Overall head-to-head, including amateur club and national team representation, Canada holds a commanding 12-4-3 lead; with NHL participation, Canada is 4-1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/connor-mcdavid-8478402\" title=\"Connor McDavid\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor McDavid<\/a> scored at 8:18 of overtime last Feb. 20 at TD Garden in Boston, lifting Canada to a 3-2 victory against the U.S. in the championship game of the 4 Nations Face-Off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One year and two days after they met in the electrifying final of the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482072,"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-482071","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\/482071","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=482071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}