It\u2019s a perfect day for the finale.<\/p>\n
On this day 46 years ago, Team USA beat the five-time Olympic champion Soviet Union squad in the semifinal before securing the gold against Finland two days later.<\/p>\n
The Americans have the same opportunity at the 2026 Winter Olympics against Canada.<\/p>\n
Can the USA capture gold in both men\u2019s and women\u2019s hockey? Or will the Canadians get one back?<\/p>\n
Follow The Post\u2019s live updates for the latest men\u2019s hockey score, news and highlights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a perfect day for the finale. On this day 46 years ago, Team USA beat the five-time…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":608317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,42928,3260,6687,66396,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,3777,62,1348,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,87294,247509],"class_list":["post-608316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-auston-matthews","tag-connor-mcdavid","tag-live-blogs","tag-mike-sullivan-nhl","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-olympics","tag-sports","tag-team-usa","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-winter-olympics","tag-winter-olympics-2026"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116114833427919430","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}