{"id":2279708,"date":"2026-02-13T00:41:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2279708"},"modified":"2026-02-13T00:41:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:41:20","slug":"everything-that-happened-on-day-5-at-the-milan-cortina-winter-olympics-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/everything-that-happened-on-day-5-at-the-milan-cortina-winter-olympics-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything that happened on Day 5 at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Any international ice hockey fan tuning into the first day of the men’s hockey tournament at the 2026 Winter Olympics probably had a pretty good idea of how the day would go \u2014 heavyweights Finland and Sweden, full of NHL talent, would easily dispatch Slovakia and Italy, respectively, in tune-ups for their rivalry showdown on Friday.<\/p>\n

But neither Slovakia nor Italy were ready to make that happen<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Slovakia shocked Finland in the opener, 4-1, making Friday’s Finland-Sweden game a must-win for the Finns. Juraj Slafkovsk\u00fd<\/strong>, the former No. 1 overall pick of the Montreal Canadiens, turned in a sensational performance with two goals and an assist.<\/p>\n

Then Italy jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the first period thanks to a bizarre mistake from star Sweden and Minnesota Wild goalkeeper Filip Gustavsson<\/strong>, and the host nation hung in against a relentless Swedish attack behind a racous home crowd and a spectacular effort from goalkeeper Damian Clara<\/strong>. However, the return of Sweden captain and Colorado Avalanche superstar Gabriel Landeskog<\/strong> combined with a third-period leg injury that knocked Clara out proved too difficult for Italy to overcome as Sweden pulled away late for a 5-2 win.<\/p>\n

Mark Lazerus and Pierre LeBrun<\/em> have more on what they saw on a dramatic first day of Olympic men’s hockey in Milan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nytimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Any international ice hockey fan tuning into the first day of the men’s hockey tournament at the 2026 Winter Olympics probably had a pretty good idea of how the day would go \u2014 heavyweights Finland and Sweden, full of NHL talent, would easily dispatch Slovakia and Italy, respectively, in tune-ups for their rivalry showdown on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2279709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2279708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Everything-that-happened-on-Day-5-at-the-Milan-Cortina.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279710,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279708\/revisions\/2279710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}