Mike Cavanaugh<\/a>. “Tage’s journey from his time at UConn to the world stage speaks to his commitment to the game. He earned everything that’s come his way, and he’s a tremendous representative of UConn hockey and USA Hockey. We’re extremely proud of him and excited to watch him compete at the highest level.”<\/p>\nThompson is off to another strong start with the Buffalo Sabres, posting 20 goals with 17 assists for 37 total points in 39 games played. Thompson has been an integral part in helping the Sabres tie a franchise record with their 10 straight wins, most recently scoring two goals and adding an assist vs. Dallas on Dec. 31.<\/p>\n
USA will kick off the Winter Olympics with a matchup vs. Latvia on Feb 12.<\/p>\n
he full schedule for the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 is as follows:<\/p>\n
Thursday, Feb. 12<\/p>\n
Group C
\nLatvia vs. United States, 3:10 p.m. — Santagiulia Arena
\nGermany vs. Denmark, 3:10 p.m. – Rho Arena<\/p>\n
Saturday, Feb. 14<\/p>\n
Group C
\nGermany vs. Latvia, 6:10 a.m. — Rho Arena
\nUSA vs. Denmark, 3:10 p.m. — Santagiulia Arena<\/p>\n
Sunday, Feb. 15<\/p>\n
Group C
\nUSA vs. Germany, 3:10 p.m. — Santagiulia Arena
\nDenmark vs. Latvia, 3:10 p.m. — Rho Arena<\/p>\n
Tuesday Feb. 17<\/p>\n
Qualification playoff, 6:10 a.m. — Santagiulia Arena
\nQualification playoff, 6:10 a.m. — Rho Arena
\nQualification playoff, 10:40 a.m. — Santagiulia Arena
\nQualification playoff, 3:10 p.m. — Santagiulia Arena<\/p>\n
Wednesday, Feb. 18<\/p>\n
Quarterfinal, 6:10 a.m. — Santagiulia Arena
\nQuarterfinal, 8:10 a.m. — Rho Arena
\nQuarterfinal, 10:40 a.m. — Santagiulia Arena
\nQuarterfinal, 3:10 p.m — Santagiulia Arena<\/p>\n
Friday, Feb. 20<\/p>\n
Semifinal, 10:40 a.m. — Santagiulia Arena
\nSemifinal, 3:10 p.m. — Santagiulia Arena<\/p>\n
Saturday, Feb. 21<\/p>\n
Bronze medal game, 2:40 p.m. — Santagiulia Arena<\/p>\n
Sunday, Feb. 22<\/p>\n
Gold medal game, 8:10 a.m. — Santagiulia Arena<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STORRS, Conn. \u2013 UConn alum Tage Thompson has been named to the 2026 USA Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-216937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}