{"id":13602,"date":"2026-02-15T05:58:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/13602\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T05:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:58:27","slug":"team-usas-win-over-denmark-exposes-path-to-gold-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/13602\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA&#8217;s win over Denmark exposes &#8216;path to gold&#8217; problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN \u2014 Team USA won. They dug their way out of it, so let\u2019s get that out of the way.<\/p>\n<p>This could have been worse. They\u2019re still on pace to win their group. Even if they don\u2019t, they still make the knockout stage. It could\u2019ve been worse than <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/14\/sports\/brady-tkachuk-helps-usa-mens-hockey-survive-denmark-scare\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6-3 over the Danes on Saturday night<\/a> here at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we\u2019re done with those obligatory noises: Little about this performance against a team the Americans should have easily crushed inspired confidence.<\/p>\n<p>For chunks of this game, Team USA looked like it had just gotten punched in the face. You know, a lot like how Danish politicians looked after Trump said he wanted to annex Greenland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN \u2014 Team USA won. They dug their way out of it, so let\u2019s get that out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,26,2812,135,10449,10448,9579,2739,2740],"class_list":["post-13602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-olympics","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-team-usa","tag-winter-olympics","tag-winter-olympics-2026"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}