{"id":18946,"date":"2014-05-20T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/canada-takes-top-spot-in-group-a-u-s-now-2nd-in-group-b\/"},"modified":"2014-05-20T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T09:11:00","slug":"canada-takes-top-spot-in-group-a-u-s-now-2nd-in-group-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/canada-takes-top-spot-in-group-a-u-s-now-2nd-in-group-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada takes top spot in Group A, U.S. now 2nd in Group B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minsk, Belarus (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Canada and the United States each finished the preliminary round of the 2014 World Hockey Championship with victories on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadians grabbed the top spot in Group A with a 3-2 win over Norway. Joel Ward scored twice for Canada, including the winner on a third-period power play, and added an assist.<\/p>\n<p>James Reimer turned aside 14 shots for the Canadians, who won their last six games of the round-robin after opening with a shootout loss to France. Canada will play either Finland or Latvia in Thursday&#8217;s quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>The United States currently sits second in Group B after a 5-4 win over Germany to conclude the preliminary round. Justin Abdelkader scored twice and Johnny Gaudreau contributed a goal with three assists for the Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Thomas made 24 saves for the United States, which can still drop to third in Group B if Belarus beats Russia in regulation later on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minsk, Belarus (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Canada and the United States each finished the preliminary round of the 2014 World Hockey Championship with victories on Tuesday. The Canadians grabbed the top spot in Group A with a 3-2 win over Norway. Joel Ward scored twice for Canada, including the winner on a third-period power play, and added [&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-18946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18946","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=18946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}