U.S. Defeats Canada in Overtime to Win Its First Olympic Men's Hockey Gold Since 1980

How Chemistry, and Whiskey, Helped Team USA Win a Historic Olympic Hockey Gold

They stayed in the Olympic Village, this American men’s Olympic hockey team that won a classic 2-1 overtime thriller against Canada on Sunday afternoon, in a game that—bet on it—will be dissected and feted and reminisced about, quite wistfully, a quarter century from now. Maybe even sooner. The squad swore off the Four Seasons to live like everyday Olympians for a few weeks. The Hughes brothers, Jack and Quinn, and the Tkachuks, Matthew and Brad…

U.S. beats Canada in overtime thriller to end 'golden drought' in Olympic men's ice hockey

It's the first time the U.S. won the men's and women's tournaments in a single Games, with the American women beating Canada in their own overtime thriller.

Renck: This was no miracle — only prideful Americans who ‘are best in the world’

The face of American hockey has a bloody lip, missing teeth and disheveled hair. Jack Hughes represents the best of us. Grit, toughness, pride, the willingness to sacrifice for others, no matter how messy or irrational. Forty-six years to the day of The Miracle on Ice, the Americans transformed hockey into a three-hour anthem in Italy. No politics, no posturing, no whining, just winning. U-S-A! 2, Canada 1. Former captain Mike Mike Eruzione was …

USA Men's Hockey Defeats Canada To Obtain Gold At The Olympics

Team USA’s hockey team has just taken the gold! In an overtime thriller, Team USA defeated Canada 2-1 to mark the USA’s first gold medal win in men’s hockey since the Miracle on Ice in 1980. Just look at the energy after the win: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OWNS HOCKEY GOLD MEDAL FOR THE USA pic.twitter.com/5khSBeqT6W — Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) February 22, 2026 Teeth lost Gold medal acquired pic.twitter.com/io1U5H74sj — SportsCenter…

Kurtenbach: USA men’s hockey’s ugly, glorious 2026 gold is just the beginning

Expectation finally caught up to reality on Sunday in Milan, even if it took an excruciating, cardiac-event-inducing game to get there. The United States men’s Olympic hockey team won the gold medal, outlasting Canada in a thriller that will not be forgotten for decades to come. This wasn’t a miracle. Forget the lame 1980 comparisons. Al Michaels doesn’t need to ask if you believe in anything. What happened on the ice wasn’t a bunch of plucky co…

Hughes loses teeth then scores Olympic gold-winning goal for USA

Jack Hughes lost his front teeth before scoring the overtime goal that gave the USA Olympic ice hockey gold for the first time for 46 years on Sunday.