In overtime, it was Jack Hughes who was the ultimate hero, he scored with 1 minute and 41 seconds to go in overtime to win the 2026 Olympic gold medal in men’s hockey for the United States.<\/p>\n
“Unbelievable game, unreal game by our team,” Hughes said after the game “Ballsy, gutsy win. That’s American Hockey right there. That’s a great Canadian team, but we’re USA. We’re so proud to be Americans.”<\/p>\n
Through a bloodied mouth and missing teeth, after taking a hit late in the game, the game-winning golden boy praised his teammates.<\/p>\n
“Hellebuyck, he was our best player tonight, by mile,” Hughes said. “USA Hockey brotherhood means so much. Look at these guys. We’re such a team.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In overtime, it was Jack Hughes who was the ultimate hero, he scored with 1 minute and 41…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[69843,103,223024,15802,95204,223026,6755,223025,218445,32704,99,191375,42270,21],"class_list":{"0":"post-484270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cale-makar","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-connor-hellebuyck","11":"tag-connor-mcdavid","12":"tag-finals","13":"tag-gold-medal-game","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-matt-boldy","16":"tag-mens-tournament","17":"tag-sidney-crosby","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-team-italy","20":"tag-team-usa","21":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}