The stick was used for one of the most-memorable save sin USA Hockey history<\/p>\n
PublishedMarch 4, 2026 7:20 PM EST\u2022UpdatedMarch 4, 2026 7:07 PM EST<\/p>\n
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There are a bunch of pieces of gear from the Olympic<\/a> men’s and women’s gold medal hockey games that should be in the Hockey Hall of Fame.\u00a0<\/p>\n Perhaps none more so than netminder Connor Hellebuyck’s<\/a> stick.<\/p>\n While Jack Hughes scored the game-winner for the fellas, there’s really no question that Hellebuyck is the one who almost single-handedly put Team USA in a position to win, thanks to a goaltending performance for the ages.<\/p>\n Enter To Win The Ultimate “Money-Can’t-Buy” Experience At The NCAA Men’s Hoops National Championship Game<\/a><\/p>\n I mean, even the President of the United States noticed, and the performance earned the Winnipeg Jets<\/a> goalie the Medal of Freedom<\/a>, the nation’s highest civilian honor.<\/p>\n But of the 41 saves he made, none are as iconic as the mind-blowing paddle save he made on Canada’s Devon Toews.<\/p>\n It turns out that Hellebuyck still has that twig, and he showed it off during an appearance on the Wingmen podcast, hosted by his Team USA teammates Matthew and Brady Tkachuk.<\/p>\n Hellebuyck said that there was a mark on the stick from that save, but Matthew Tkachuk wasn’t buying it.<\/p>\n “Do you want me to go grab it?” he asked. “I have the stick in my house right now.”<\/p>\n Hellebuyck retrieved the now-legendary twig and showed that it had a blemish where the blade meets the paddle.<\/p>\n “I can confirm it because I remember looking at this mark right here,” he said. “I looked at that after the second, ‘I’m like, is this broken or do I need to worry about that?'”<\/p>\n