{"id":702154,"date":"2026-01-17T13:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/702154\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T13:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:15:10","slug":"team-usa-plays-sweden-for-spot-in-gold-medal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/702154\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA Plays Sweden For Spot In Gold Medal Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TODAY&#8217;S MATCH UP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s game marks the team&#8217;s semifinal match at the 2026 IIHF Under-18 Women&#8217;s World Championship. With a win, Team USA will advance to the gold medal game on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IN THE SEMIFINALS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. holds a 16-0-0-1 (W-OTW-OTL-L) record all time at this tournament in semifinal games. The team&#8217;s lone loss in the semifinals came at the hands of Sweden in 2023. Since then, the U.S. has outscored opponents 6-3 in the last two semifinal games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MAKING THE SEMIFINALS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team USA has advanced to the semifinals of the IIHF Under-18 Women&#8217;s World Championship in every tournament staged, marking the 18th straight tournament they are playing in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALL TIME AGAINST SWEDEN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Team USA and Sweden have met 19 times at this tournament prior to today, with the U.S. holding a 17-1-0-1 advantage. The U.S. has outscored Sweden, 98-17, all time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DALEY TIES SINGLE-TOURNAMENT GOAL RECORD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Forward <strong>Jane Daley<\/strong> recorded two goals in Thursday&#8217;s 9-0 win over Hungary, bringing her total to 11 for the entire tournament. That ties the IIHF single-tournament goal record set by fellow American Haley Skarupa in 2012. One more goal breaks the record. Daley has 15 points on the tournament<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TODAY&#8217;S MATCH UP Today&#8217;s game marks the team&#8217;s semifinal match at the 2026 IIHF Under-18 Women&#8217;s World Championship.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-702154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115910628025611506","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}