Die Eishockeymannschaft der US-Männer hat es völlig versäumt, den kulturellen Moment zu meistern

Many of them are Trump goons so no big surprise.

A number of the issues identified in this article:

>As the celebrations from the 2-1 overtime win over Canada spilled off the ice and behind closed doors, FBI director Kash Patel joined Team USA in the locker room in a leaked video that has since gone viral. In the video, Patel is seen celebrating and drinking beer with the team, whose victory came on the same day an armed man breached the perimeter at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property. The FBI has since taken the lead investigating the incident.
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>Then, in another video posted amidst the postgame celebrations, Patel was seen holding up a cell phone to the hockey team for a call with President Trump. Included in the call is a moment where Trump and the team seemingly share a laugh about having to invite the United States women’s team — who also won gold against Canada — to the White House as well.
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>So much of the success Team USA had at these Olympics was at the hands of women. But, for most of the Games, the White House has either been silent in the face of these victories or has actively disparaged athletes that have spoken out against the United States politically. It wasn’t until the men’s hockey team won gold over its long-standing rival that the Trump administration decided to hand out praise and victory calls.
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>Given the NHL reportedly has the second-highest percentage of right-leaning athletes out of the five major sports leagues in the United States, it shouldn’t come as a surprise.
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>It’s especially disappointing considering the lip service the men’s team paid to the women throughout the Olympics. Multiple members of the men’s team attended games in support of their Team USA peers, and Auston Matthews and Matthew Tkachuk both had high praise for the United States women in their pursuit of gold.
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>And after the gold medal game, Jack Hughes told NHL reporter Jackie Redmond that Megan Keller was the first person on his mind after scoring the golden goal for the United States. Just a few days prior, Keller was the hero for the United States women with her overtime goal against Canada.
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>The Hughes brothers also have a deep connection to the United States women’s hockey program. Their mother, Ellen Weinberg-Hughes, was part of the US women’s national team that won silver at the 1992 world championships. Since then, Weinberg-Hughes has been a player development consultant for the United States women’s national team and no doubt contributed to the gold medal the team won at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
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>All of that feels so hollow now in the face of the team’s embarrassing postgame moments with Patel and Trump. To laugh at a joke disparaging your United States teammates and peers who won the same accomplishments as you just a few days prior is incredibly disappointing behavior.

The administration’s utter silence when it came to the success of amateur female athletes during these games was such a stark contrast to their response when the professional athletes in men’s hockey won gold. This has been reflected time and again not only in the celebrations but also in the lack of support at the amateur levels for sports.

That’s all insanely wealthy white guys. What did you expect.

The most reactionary sport and people are surprised by this?

The whole time they were standing there I was just shaking my head thinking I hope their girlfriends leave them over this.

The women’s team knew better.

They won the game, the gold, and that should’ve been a unifying moment for the country. But they introduced politics into it immediately with Patel in the locker room celebration, which he and MAGA amplified. They looked past Trump’s comments about the women achieving the same result, did little to defend their fellow athletes, and the speed with which they were shown at the State of the Union speaks to a willingess to be used politically, or at least an incredible naivete. And it shows that Trump doesn’t care at all about women’s sports. All the bluster about trans athletes is something quite different.

So the result now is the women’s team is the champion for the left, the men’s team is for MAGA, and that’s 100% on the men’s team here. And nobody emerges from this well – not the women’s team, not Patel, not Trump, not the men’s team. Nobody. They’re the Kid Rock of Gold Medal winners. Well done.

Partying with the director of the FBI was incriminating enough. *Literally partying with fascists* for fucks sake! The ring-kissing at the state of the union was just cementing it.

Fuck every one of them and their fake ass patriotism. I’d rather we took the loss at the Olympics than to have these fascist motherfuckers win.

They’re a bunch of maga shitheads. Not particularly surprising.

I don’t think there was ever a chance of the men’s team meeting the moment. For one, it was known before the games even started that certain members of the team were full MAGA. For two, we’re talking about a group of (largely) white men who grew up able to afford a ridiculously expensive sport and have been singularly focused on hockey and insulated from the realities of the world since at LEAST age 13. Wishcasting that this exact thing wasn’t going to happen because it was the biggest international hockey game in most people’s conscious lifetime was foolish.

I wish it weren’t the case, but that’s how it currently is, and would take a seismic shift in hockey culture to fix it. There are CHUDs on the Canadian team, too. Hell, Gretzky’s a Trumper.

That all said – drag ‚em for it. Especially when contrasted to the Women’s team who, by sheer nature of being women in sports, are forced to have their very existence be seen as „political“ by the worst people in this country.

As an American the way they have been acting since Kash Patel was with them makes me wish that Canada won.

Well yeah, they’re rich white kids

The people who actually play Hockey is mostly limited to the upper middle class unless you live in the few north states that the cold let’s you play. Travel sports like Hockey are expensive and that income bracket shines through in moments like this.

They showed us who they were…

Violent sports always get Trump and MAGA approval.
I’m proud of the women for not being unga bunga brained and actually care about our country