Third time’s the appeal, eh? For Group USA’s sake, they hope that saying rings true, as they search Olympic gold within the males’s hockey closing in opposition to Canada in Milan Cortina.
The neighboring international locations have met twice earlier than in Olympic gold medal video games. The primary matchup got here in 2002 on the Salt Lake Metropolis Winter Olympics, the place Canada cruised to a 5-2 victory. The final gold medal recreation between the 2 got here in 2010 in Vancouver, the place Canada received an extra time thriller 3-2 of their house nation.
Whereas workforce USA has not received a gold medal in males’s hockey since 1980, Canada’s final gold medal got here on the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, after they beat Sweden 3-0.
The final time Canada and United States met on the ice was on the 2025 4 Nations Face-Off, when Canada topped the U.S. within the championship recreation, because of a dagger in extra time by NHL standout Connor McDavid. Group USA will undoubtedly be trying to search revenge on this gold medal recreation.
How did the U.S. males’s workforce make it to the gold medal recreation?
Group USA cruised by a weaker group in round-robin play, incomes 9 out of a doable 9 factors. En path to the gold medal recreation, they confronted Latvia, Denmark and Germany, incomes an computerized spot within the quarterfinals in consequence.
Within the quarterfinals, the U.S. took an actual intestine punch when Sweden equalized within the closing moments, forcing the sport into extra time at 1-1. However the USA responded with the knockout blow, because of a Quinn Hughes extra time aim for the victory. Within the semifinals, America routed Slovakia, profitable 6-2 to e-book a spot within the gold medal recreation.
When is the boys’s hockey gold medal recreation?
The gold medal recreation is about for Sunday, Feb. 22, at 8:10 a.m. ET.
The motion may be seen on NBC New York, and streamed on Peacock or NBCOlympics.com.
