4. F Auston Matthews and G Connor Hellebuyck, United States<\/p>\n
Stats: 3 Goals, 2 Assists, 5 Points, +2 \/\/ 2-0, .952 Save Percentage, 1.00 GAA<\/p>\n
Cheating here and putting two U.S. players in the same spot because both are almost in the same place in their careers.\u00a0Auston Matthews and\u00a0Connor Hellebuyck\u00a0have been in the NHL for about a decade are both established stars, having each won the Hart Trophy for NHL MVP. They\u2019ve also combined for one conference final appearance and couldn\u2019t make enough of a difference in last year\u2019s 4 Nations Face-Off overtime finish against Canada.<\/p>\n
But they\u2019re both re-writing their narratives in Milan. Hellebuyck\u2019s .952 save percentage is third best in the tournament, as he\u2019s allowed just one goal in both of his starts on 40 cumulative shots. Matthews leads Team USA in goals (three) and points (five) after scoring two goals and an assist against Germany to close the round robin. If the U.S. wins its first men\u2019s hockey gold since the Miracle on Ice, these two will be huge reasons why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4. F Auston Matthews and G Connor Hellebuyck, United States Stats: 3 Goals, 2 Assists, 5 Points, +2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,464],"tags":[532,56071,19,1171,155,2551,4151,6544,5,976,10371,501,513,55699,40,4,60,4011,4526,1501,4507,14,104,718,56072,1718,6711,3255,681,1309],"class_list":{"0":"post-462064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl-playoffs","8":"category-stanley-cup-playoffs","9":"tag-auston-matthews","10":"tag-best-of-milan-cortina-2026","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-connor-hellebuyck","13":"tag-connor-mcdavid","14":"tag-czechia","15":"tag-finland","16":"tag-germany","17":"tag-hockey","18":"tag-juraj-slafkovsky","19":"tag-leonardo-genoni","20":"tag-macklin-celebrini","21":"tag-martin-necas","22":"tag-mens-tournament","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-nhl","25":"tag-nhl-playoffs","26":"tag-rasmus-dahlin","27":"tag-rasmus-ristolainen","28":"tag-roman-josi","29":"tag-slovakia","30":"tag-stanley-cup","31":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","32":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs-nhl","33":"tag-stars-of-the-games","34":"tag-sweden","35":"tag-switzerland","36":"tag-team-usa","37":"tag-tim-stutzle","38":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116092081547598860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}