{"id":166271,"date":"2026-02-23T23:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166271\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T23:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:27:14","slug":"team-usa-plane-gets-water-salute-for-heroes-upon-landing-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166271\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA plane gets water salute for heroes upon landing in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/olympics\/news\/team-usa-plane-water-salute-heroes-landing-miami\/304024b24822efaee711b5e5?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Team USA plane gets water salute for heroes upon landing in Miami;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Team USA plane gets water salute for heroes upon landing in Miami<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Team USA&#8217;s men&#8217;s hockey team is back home.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>They landed in Miami on Monday and were given a special heroes welcome.<\/p>\n<p>When their plane drove toward the gate, they were given a water salute. Trucks lined up on both sides and sent water arcs over the plane.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/olympics\/news\/jack-hughes-scores-team-usa-biggest-mens-hockey-goal-46-years\/56217afd566b595213814bf4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jack Hughes, not a miracle, just magic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jack Hughes, not a miracle, just magic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The water salute is an impressive gesture.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s often used to mark a pilot&#8217;s retirement or to recognize a new aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>It also has been used when the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/5742432\/returning-soldier-dallas-airport-vietnam-veteran\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:remains of fallen soldiers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">remains of fallen soldiers<\/a> are brought home.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, it was used to recognize Olympic gold medalists.<\/p>\n<p>Team USA defeated Canada in overtime on Sunday in Milan, 2-1. It marked the first gold medal for U.S. men&#8217;s hockey since 1980, the Miracle On Ice team.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/olympics\/news\/team-usa-honored-johnny-gaudreau-golden-son-johnny-jr-2nd-birthday\/aefc626d035cc6f43dc96201\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Team USA honors Johnny Gaudreau in special way after gold medal;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Team USA honors Johnny Gaudreau in special way after gold medal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This group wasn&#8217;t a miracle bunch. They included the best NHL players born in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Still, they were outshot and outplayed by Canada for much of Sunday&#8217;s game. Goalie Connor Hellebuyck had a legendary performance with 41 saves, including a couple of near-impossible ones.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Hughes scored the sudden-death game-winner in overtime.<\/p>\n<p>And now, upon arriving home, these gold medal winners have been given a noble salute.<\/p>\n<p>More NHL news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team USA plane gets water salute for heroes upon landing in Miami originally appeared on The Sporting News.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[79091,78579,79089,79090,123,125,1063,124,79088,63416,4103,79087],"class_list":{"0":"post-166271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-connor-hellebuyck","9":"tag-jack-hughes","10":"tag-jamison-coyle","11":"tag-johnny-gaudreau","12":"tag-miami","13":"tag-miami-headlines","14":"tag-miami-international-airport","15":"tag-miami-news","16":"tag-olympic-gold-medalists","17":"tag-team-usa","18":"tag-water","19":"tag-water-salute"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166271","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=166271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}