{"id":502649,"date":"2026-02-25T07:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502649\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T07:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:23:09","slug":"kyle-connor-focuses-on-jets-nhl-season-after-skipping-trumps-white-house-invite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502649\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Connor focuses on Jets&#8217; NHL season after skipping Trump&#8217;s White House invite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1393642_094753_updates.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Kyle Connor focuses on Jets' NHL season after skipping Trump's White House invite \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kyle Connor has declined an invitation to the White House following Team USA\u2019s Olympic gold medal win, choosing instead to focus on the Winnipeg Jets\u2019 NHL season.<\/p>\n<p>Connor played in the first two games of the Milano Cortina tournament but was later made a healthy scratch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After Team USA secured gold, several players were invited to celebrate at the White House with President Donald Trump. Connor did not attend.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking through comments shared by Murat Ates on X, Connor said: \u201cI\u2019m just getting ready. We play on Wednesday. It\u2019s a big second half, so I just wanted to make sure I was ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s celebration drew criticism online, particularly over Trump\u2019s remarks about the Women\u2019s National Team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Connor said he did not have much reaction to the controversy: \u201cI don\u2019t really have any thoughts on that. There\u2019s so many things happening,.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just won the gold medal, and things are going on, so I don\u2019t really remember what he said. It\u2019s such a whirlwind, just celebrating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Connor now shifts his focus back to the Jets as the NHL season continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Connor has declined an invitation to the White House following Team USA\u2019s Olympic gold medal win, choosing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-502649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}