Raddysh was playfully shamed by the team on social media, with a video of his pick followed by footage of him participating at Sunday’s practice wearing a Team USA jersey.<\/p>\n
The defenseman, currently having a career-best season with 52 points (17 goals, 35 assists) in 49 games, took it all in stride, smiling his way through warm-ups and drills wearing the unfamiliar sweater.<\/p>\n
The Lightning’s allegiance as an organization were split in the gold medal game, as so many others were<\/a>. Forward Jake Guentzel<\/a> played for Team USA while forward Brandon Hagel<\/a> played with Canada. Lightning coach Jon Cooper also served as Canada’s coach.<\/p>\n Oh well, looks like Raddysh will have to wait at least four years to get some payback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raddysh was playfully shamed by the team on social media, with a video of his pick followed by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-485339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485339","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=485339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}