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The United States won men's crystal hockey golden astatine the Winter Olympics for the archetypal clip successful 46 years arsenic Jack Hughes' overtime extremity gave them a 2-1 triumph implicit Canada connected Sunday (February 22, 2026).
Hughes' onslaught 1min 41sec into overtime handed the US men their archetypal Olympic triumph since the 1980 'Miracle connected Ice' triumph implicit the Soviet Union successful Lake Placid.
U.S. President Donald Trump was speedy to congratulate the golden medallists.
"Congratulations to our large U.S.A. Ice Hockey team. THEY WON THE GOLD. WOW!" helium said connected Truth Social, adding: "WHAT A GAME!"
The code for the high-stakes clash was acceptable aboriginal connected erstwhile the Americans were booed erstwhile they came retired for the warm-up astatine the Santagiulia Arena by a assemblage that appeared to beryllium two-thirds Canadian.
But chants of "USA, USA" soon rang retired and they got louder erstwhile Matt Boldy gave the Americans a 1-0 pb successful the archetypal period.
Boldy skilfully evaded the situation of a brace of Canadian defenders and scored past goaltender Jordan Binnington.
Having stopped the archetypal 24 shots helium faced, USA goaltender Connor Hellebuyck was yet beaten successful the 2nd play by Cale Makar's wrist changeable that squeezed implicit his pad and into the backmost of the net.
The Americans came adjacent to re-taking the pb astatine the extremity of the 2nd play erstwhile Brock Faber's slap changeable deflected disconnected some posts but someway didn't spell in.
Once the crippled went into the three-on-three overtime, Hughes applied the aureate interaction to nonstop his teammates and the US supporters into raptures.
After they won, the American players skated astir the rink holding up a jersey with the sanction Gaudreau and the fig 13 connected the backmost successful representation of erstwhile NHL subordinate Johnny Gaudreau, who was killed successful August 2024 on with his member Matthew by a drunk operator portion cycling successful New Jersey.
Finland, the champions successful Beijing 4 years ago, won the bronze medal connected Saturday by thrashing Slovakia 6-1.
