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MILAN, ITALY: Jack Hughes of Team USA celebrates after winning the Gold Medal hockey match between Canada and the United States on day 16 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
On the final day of the 2026 Olympic Games for Team USA, the Americans defeated the Canadians in an overtime, sudden-death, gold-medal game. Twenty-four-year-old Jack Hughes scored the winning goal. “It was particularly sweet, and amazing, because in the third period he had his face bashed in so brutally that the Canadian thug who did it was assessed a double penalty,” the Free Beacon’s editors write. It was also important:
The hockey boys’ Milan medal is particularly resonant for America’s Jewish community. Jack Hughes and brother Quinn, also a member of Team USA, are Jewish. They were Bar Mitzvahed. Their mother, Ellen Weinberg-Hughes, was a member of the U.S. Women’s National Team and served as player development coach for the U.S. Women’s Team that also won gold in Milan. As Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire put it in a post on X, “For the last year there has been a whole lot of ‘just asking questions’ about Jewish Americans loyalty … Jack Hughes (Jewish) is the perfect metaphor. Taking a stick to the face to win Team USA gold against Canada. Then spouting pure patriotism.”
The reference was to Jack Hughes’s immediate postgame interview: “This is all about our country right now. I love the USA. … I’m so proud to be American today. … Just a ballsy, gutsy win. That’s American hockey right there. … We’re USA. We’re so proud to be Americans. This night was all for our country. … We’re so proud to win for our country.”
As in 1980, it was a bigger win than just on ice. The miracle isn’t just a hockey game outcome but a country that renews itself with new generations of competitors who are not ashamed of America but are proud.
READ MORE: ‘So Proud to Be American’: Jack Hughes and the New Miracle on Ice
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