{"id":466997,"date":"2026-02-22T17:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/466997\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T17:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:12:19","slug":"n-j-gov-mikie-sherrill-congratulates-team-usa-on-gold-medal-win-against-canada-thanks-to-new-jerseys-own-jack-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/466997\/","title":{"rendered":"N.J. Gov. Mikie Sherrill congratulates Team USA on gold medal win against Canada, thanks to \u2018New Jersey\u2019s own Jack Hughes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov. Mikie Sherrill<\/a> joined a nation of celebrating fans Sunday morning in applauding Devils<\/a> center Jack Hughes<\/a>, whose overtime goal handed the United States men\u2019s hockey team its first gold medal since 1980.<\/p>\n

With the game tied 1-1 and 1:41 into overtime, Hughes received a pass from defenseman Zach Werenski and shot the puck past Team Canada goalie Jordan Binnington for the 2-1 win, snapping the United States\u2019 46-year gold medal drought.<\/p>\n

Sherrill quote-posted a video of the goal on X<\/a> and shared her message to Hughes and Team USA.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Jersey\u2019s own Jack Hughes \u2013 Olympic hero!\u201d Sherrill said. \u201cCongratulations to him and all of @TeamUSA.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hughes\u2019 goal came after he received a high stick from Team Canada forward Sam Bennett, who hit Hughes in the mouth. The stick chipped two of Hughes\u2019 teeth and led to a four-minute power play for the United States.<\/p>\n

Hughes, who won the gold medal alongside his brother Quinn, was still in shock after the game. <\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t even believe this,\u201d Hughes said via The Associated Press. \u201cI mean it\u2019s such an unbelievable game, USA-Canada. Such a good game. There\u2019s so many great players. We\u2019re a great team. That\u2019s exactly how we wanted it to go. We\u2019re underdogs to Canada, (but we) beat them. It could have gone either way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hughes also spoke about the impact the win had on the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is all about our country right now,\u201d Hughes said. \u201cI love the U.S.A. I love my teammates. It\u2019s unbelievable. The USA Hockey brotherhood is so strong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Mikie Sherrill joined a nation of celebrating fans Sunday morning in applauding Devils center Jack Hughes, whose…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[46305,26402,201,2675,5,15348,55018,576,151,5185,5184,4,5966,2602,46263,43,49619,25639,31286,55019],"class_list":["post-466997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-jersey-devils","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympic-games","tag-2026-winter-olympic-games","tag-devils","tag-events","tag-hockey","tag-milan-cortina-olympics","tag-milan-cortina-winter-olympics","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-newjersey","tag-newjerseydevils","tag-nhl","tag-olympic-games","tag-olympics","tag-olympics-2026","tag-sports","tag-winter-games","tag-winter-olympic-games","tag-winter-olympics-2026","tag-xxv-olympiad"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116115403706123603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466997","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=466997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}