{"id":436514,"date":"2023-05-23T12:21:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T16:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436514"},"modified":"2023-05-23T12:21:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T16:21:58","slug":"usa-tops-sweden-4-3-after-ot-in-an-intense-battle","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/usa-tops-sweden-4-3-after-ot-in-an-intense-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"USA tops Sweden 4-3 after OT in an intense battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USA had a tough job battling Sweden and got a 4-3 win after overtime.<\/p>\n<p>In a penalty-laden special teams battle, Dylan Samberg scored at 1:37 of overtime to lift the US to capture first place and the top seed in Group A for Thursday&#8217;s quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Samberg accepted Carter Mazur&#8217;s centering pass from below the goal line and roofed it to keep the Americans unbeaten with 20 points.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 OT goal from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dsamberg26?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@dsamberg26<\/a> \ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usahockey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@usahockey<\/a> end the Preliminary Round at the \ud83d\udd1d of Group A! USA are undefeated in the Preliminary Round for the first time at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IIHFWorlds?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#IIHFWorlds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u270d\ufe0fGame recap: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gPiTyYc5Yz\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/gPiTyYc5Yz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qp2SwabME1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Qp2SwabME1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IIHF (@IIHFHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IIHFHockey\/status\/1661043565013639168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. led 3-1 late in the third period, but the Swedes made a comeback, scoring twice in less than three minutes to send it to extra time.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first loss for coach Sam Hallam&#8217;s Swedes, who finished the group stage with 18 points, including a 2-1 overtime win over host Finland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA had a tough job battling Sweden and got a 4-3 win after overtime. In a penalty-laden special teams battle, Dylan Samberg scored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":436515,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19304,18846],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[19305,18847],"acf":{"announce":"Samberg scored the winner for US, leaving his team unbeaten with 20 points in the group","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436514"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436514"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}