{"id":18885,"date":"2014-05-18T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/u-s-earns-qf-spot-at-worlds-canada-beats-sweden-again\/"},"modified":"2014-05-18T13:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T13:50:00","slug":"u-s-earns-qf-spot-at-worlds-canada-beats-sweden-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/u-s-earns-qf-spot-at-worlds-canada-beats-sweden-again\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. earns QF spot at Worlds, Canada beats Sweden again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minsk, Belarus (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The United States earned a spot in the quarterfinals of the 2014 World Hockey Championship on Sunday with a victory over Finland and Canada again topped Sweden in a rematch of the Olympic gold medal game.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Johnson scored a pair of third-period goals and Tim Thomas made 22 saves for the Americans in a 3-1 victory. Brock Nelson also scored and Seth Jones notched a pair of assists in the triumph, the second straight for the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The United States sits second in Group B and can finish no lower than fourth with just a game against Germany on Tuesday remaining in round-robin action.<\/p>\n<p>Canada, meanwhile, took over the top spot in Group A with its 3-2 overtime win against Sweden. Both squads have 15 points, but the Canadians currently hold the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<p>Brayden Schenn and Kevin Bieksa scored second-period goals to help Canada erase a 2-0 deficit and Ryan Ellis netted the winner in overtime. Ben Scrivens made 30 saves for the Canadians, who will finish round-robin play Tuesday against Norway.<\/p>\n<p>Russia will play Germany and Norway will face the Czech Republic later Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minsk, Belarus (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The United States earned a spot in the quarterfinals of the 2014 World Hockey Championship on Sunday with a victory over Finland and Canada again topped Sweden in a rematch of the Olympic gold medal game. Tyler Johnson scored a pair of third-period goals and Tim Thomas made 22 saves for [&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-18885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18885","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=18885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}