Key Highlights
- After watching Team USA defeat Canada in the Olympics men’s hockey gold medal game, United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth bestowed his old title on American goaltender Connor Hellebuyck.
- Hellebuyck collected 41 saves to help keep the game tied at 1-1, forcing overtime.
- Jack Hughes ultimately scored the game-winner past Canada’s netminder Jordan Binnington.
- One of Hellebuyck’s saves saw him somehow stop a wide-open Devon Toews shot in front of his crease with only his stick, turning quickly with his right hand to stop the puck and keep the game tied in the second period.
- Without that save, and many others, the result may have been different.