{"id":484703,"date":"2026-02-23T00:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484703\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T00:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:10:09","slug":"will-gold-medal-win-change-united-states-mentality-in-international-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484703\/","title":{"rendered":"Will gold-medal win change United States\u2019 mentality in international play?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States\u2019 men\u2019s hockey team<\/a> won Olympic gold following their 2-1 overtime victory over Canada <\/a>on Sunday. It\u2019s the Americans\u2019 first gold medal since NHLers were allowed to participate in the Olympics, and their first gold-medal victory of any kind since their \u201cMiracle on Ice\u201d at Lake Placid in 1980. <\/p>\n

On Sunday\u2019s Daily Faceoff gold-medal post-game show<\/a>, Jeff Marek, Jonny Lazarus and Tyler Yaremchuk discuss the U.S. victory and whether this could have an effect on the men\u2019s side of the USA Hockey program. <\/p>\n

Jeff Marek: I\u2019ve always found that the U.S. men\u2019s team was always uncomfortable with the idea that they were good, that they needed to be \u201cunderdogs.\u201d That\u2019s where USA Hockey was always comfortable. \u201cUs against everybody, they don\u2019t give us a chance.\u201d <\/p>\n

I talked to Brian Burke about Vancouver 2010, he always says \u201cWe were predicted to finish seventh.\u201d Are you ever going to achieve consistant greatness if that\u2019s how you think about yourself? The answer is no. That\u2019s why I wonder if this tournament can be the turning point for USA Hockey, where finally, they don\u2019t have to try and sell themselves as \u201cthe underdog,\u201d and they have to get comfortable with that they can win. <\/p>\n

We see it at the World Juniors all the time, all those kids believe they can win that tournament. Then you get to the Olympics and the 4 Nations and the World Championships and they\u2019re only comfortable considering themselves underdogs. Do you think this tournament changes that? <\/p>\n

Jonny Lazarus: I\u2019m not sure this team will ever be favorites, as I still think Canada has the top-end talent, right? They have four of the five best players in the game, and it\u2019s hard to try and twist that and say the U.S. are favorites. <\/p>\n

After my friends I celebrated the U.S. winning, we paused and thought, \u201cwe\u2019ve never seen this before. I\u2019ve never seen USA men\u2019s hockey win a gold medal in my life.\u201d Canadians have seen it a couple times, and this is something we\u2019ve never seen. This now starts the belief. How could you believe in something you\u2019ve never seen before? <\/p>\n

I think, to your point Jeff, there was never really a reason to think that it belonged to us, because we had never had it. Now that we\u2019ve got a piece of it, you now believe you\u2019re good enough. <\/p>\n

You can watch the full segment and the rest of the episode here\u2026<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States\u2019 men\u2019s hockey team won Olympic gold following their 2-1 overtime victory over Canada on Sunday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-484703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484703","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=484703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}