{"id":660906,"date":"2026-05-23T18:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T18:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660906\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T18:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T18:37:11","slug":"penguins-connor-clifton-tommy-novak-held-pointless-in-united-states-loss-to-latvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660906\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins\u2019 Connor Clifton, Tommy Novak held pointless in United States\u2019 loss to Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Connor Clifton and forward Tommy Novak were each held without a point for the United States in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iihf.com\/pdf\/969\/ihm969a37_74_3_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a 4-2 loss to Latvia<\/a> during a preliminary round game at the International Ice Hockey Federation\u2019s World Championship tournament at Swiss Life Arena in Zurich on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Opening the contest on the right side of the United States\u2019 third pairing, Clifton logged 12:39 of ice time on 17 shifts and had one shot.<\/p>\n<p>Novak started the contest on the left wing of the top line and clocked 18:13 of ice time on 17 shifts.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The United States will play Hungary in a preliminary round game on Monday, 10:20 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Connor Clifton and forward Tommy Novak were each held without a point for the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-660906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660906","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=660906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}