For the first time since 1980, Team USA is golden in men\u2019s hockey at the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n
Jack Hughes\u2019 goal 1 minute, 41 seconds into overtime in Sunday\u2019s gold medal game at the 2026 Winter Olympics was the difference as Lightning forward Jake Guentzel and Team USA beat Team Canada 2-1 in overtime.<\/p>\n
Minnesota Wild forward Matt Boldy opened the scoring six minutes in with a highlight reel goal for Team USA, flipping the puck to himself to break between the Canadian defenseman before burying a backhand shot past the leg of Canada goalie Jordan Binnington.<\/p>\n
Canada held the puck for much of the second period and finally tied the game with 1:44 left in the middle frame on Colorado Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar\u2019s shot from the right dot.<\/p>\n
Canada outshot the Lightning 41 to 27 in the game, but Team USA held on to win the game with the help of 40 saves from goalie Connor Hellebuyck.<\/p>\n
Hughes scored on his shot from the left circle early in overtime after defenseman Zach Werenski won a puck battle in the right corner.<\/p>\n
Lightning forward Jake Guentzel played 17:37 and fired two shots on goal in the win. Brandon Hagel saw 10:13 of ice time with two shots on goal and helped set up Canada\u2019s lone score.<\/p>\n
Scoring Summary<\/p>\n
First period<\/p>\n
USA 1, CAN 0<\/p>\n
6:00 Matt Boldy (2) – Auston Matthews, Quinn Hughes<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: USA 8, CAN 8<\/p>\n
Second period<\/p>\n
USA 1, CAN 1<\/p>\n
18:16 Cale Makar (2) – Devon Toews<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: CAN 19, USA 8<\/p>\n
Third period<\/p>\n
None.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal: CAN 14, USA 10<\/p>\n
Overtime<\/p>\n
1:41 Jack Hughes (4) – Zach Werenski<\/p>\n
Total shots: CAN 41, USA 27<\/p>\n
TBL Player Summary<\/p>\n
Jake Guentzel (USA): 17:37 TOI, 2 SOG, 2 PIM.<\/p>\n
Brandon Hagel (CAN): 10:13 TOI, 2 SOG, +1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time since 1980, Team USA is golden in men\u2019s hockey at the Winter Olympics. Jack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-164875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}