Updated Feb. 23, 2026, 8:44 a.m. ET
Nathan MacKinnon has already made his feelings known about his Team Canada loss to the United States in the Olympic men’s hockey gold-medal game on Sunday, telling reporters, “You be the judge of who was the better team today.”
But there was also the moment caught on camera of the alternate captain and Colorado Avalanche superstar looking furious as he’s handed one of those Milan Cortina Olympic mascot stuffed animals. You can see him look it over, consider something and then slightly shake his head. You have to wonder what’s going through his head at that moment, and that’s what folks did on social media:
Rough day for MacKinnon and that stuffed animal.