{"id":11557,"date":"2026-02-18T10:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/11557\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:45:14","slug":"chalk-rules-the-day-in-mens-hockey-germany-switzerland-czechia-sweden-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/11557\/","title":{"rendered":"Chalk rules the day in men&#8217;s hockey; Germany, Switzerland, Czechia, Sweden advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden 5, Latvia 1<\/p>\n<p>Sweden toppled Latvia 5-1 in the qualification playoff to advance onward.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcolympics.com\/results\/live\/hockey\/66\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MATCH RESULTS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The five-goal output was supplied by Sweden&#8217;s Adrian Kempe, Gabriel Landeskog, Filip Forsberg, Mika Zibanejad and William Nylander.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is when the fun begins,&#8221; said Landeskog. &#8220;It&#8217;s important for us to regroup after this one, obviously recognize what we did well but understanding how our opponent&#8217;s going to go up another level tomorrow and recognize what a great opportunity it is to see what we&#8217;re made of,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Eduards Tralmaks scored the only goal for Latvia.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden will meet the United States in the quarterfinal round, the final game on Wednesday at 3:10 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sweden 5, Latvia 1 Sweden toppled Latvia 5-1 in the qualification playoff to advance onward. MATCH RESULTS The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[3938,6148,6230,6424,1001,8715,8716,8717,8718,1344,2651,309,8712,8713,8123,6100,6098,1202,1297,3959,8714,6144,1295,5685,17],"class_list":["post-11557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-czechia","tag-damian-clara","tag-david-kampf","tag-denmark","tag-france","tag-game-1","tag-game-2","tag-game-3","tag-game-4","tag-germany","tag-hockey","tag-italy","tag-joshua-samanski","tag-latvia","tag-leon-draisaitl","tag-martin-necas","tag-mens-tournament","tag-news","tag-nico-hischier","tag-philipp-kurashev","tag-qualification-playoff","tag-roman-cervenka","tag-roman-josi","tag-sweden","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}