{"id":14880,"date":"2014-02-21T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/canada-to-play-for-second-straight-gold-after-blanking-u-s-3\/"},"modified":"2014-02-21T20:00:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T20:00:03","slug":"canada-to-play-for-second-straight-gold-after-blanking-u-s-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/canada-to-play-for-second-straight-gold-after-blanking-u-s-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada to play for second straight gold after blanking U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sochi, Russia (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Jamie Benn supplied the lone goal of the contest at 1:41 of the second period, and Canada earned the right to defend its gold medal thanks to a 1-0 decision over Team USA in Friday&#8217;s semifinal of the Sochi Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Carey Price turned aside all 31 shots he faced for the Canadians, who will take on Sweden in Sunday&#8217;s title contest. The Swedes advanced earlier Friday with a 2-1 victory over Finland.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Quick made 36 saves for the Americans, who must regroup quickly for a matchup with the Finns in Saturday&#8217;s bronze medal tilt.<\/p>\n<p>Quick, the LA Kings&#8217; starting goaltender, was beaten only once. Jay Bouwmeester unleashed a low, hard shot from the left point which skittered into the slot and was redirected home by Benn for the winning margin.<\/p>\n<p>Canada improved to 4-1 in Olympic action against its southern neighbors since NHL players began competing in 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sochi, Russia (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Jamie Benn supplied the lone goal of the contest at 1:41 of the second period, and Canada earned the right to defend its gold medal thanks to a 1-0 decision over Team USA in Friday&#8217;s semifinal of the Sochi Olympics. Carey Price turned aside all 31 shots he faced for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14882,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14880\/revisions\/14882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}