{"id":467011,"date":"2026-02-22T17:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/467011\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T17:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:21:12","slug":"sabres-tage-thompson-wins-olympic-gold-medal-with-team-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/467011\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres&#8217; Tage Thompson wins Olympic gold medal with Team USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo Sabres forward Tage Thompson is now an Olympic gold medalist after the <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/rochester\/news\/2026\/02\/22\/jack-hughes-scores-in-overtime-as-u-s--beats-canada-for-gold-at-olympics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United States beat Canada<\/a> 2-1 in overtime in the gold medal final on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Hughes scored 1:41 into overtime, claiming the nation\u2019s third men\u2019s title at the Games and its first since the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/1980-miracle-on-ice-hockey-c64ae6cbf5c4b41f71d9a78782409780\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cMiracle on Ice\u201d<\/a> in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his foot being injured in Friday&#8217;s game against Slovakia, Thompson did play in Sunday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson leads the Sabres in goals (30) and points (59) this season.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson helped the U.S. win the <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/news\/2025\/05\/26\/tage-thompson-s-ot-goal-leads-u-s--to-1st-world-hockey-title-since-1933\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">world hockey championship<\/a> last May for the first time since 1933, scoring the game-winning goal in overtime over Switzerland. He scored six goals in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres forward Tage Thompson is now an Olympic gold medalist after the United States beat Canada 2-1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5100],"tags":[1249,1107,229,5133,5,40,4,2944,1108,4093,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-467011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-sabres","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-sabres","11":"tag-buffalosabres","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-rochester","16":"tag-sabres","17":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116115438647027542","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467011","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=467011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}