{"id":467519,"date":"2026-02-23T00:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/467519\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T00:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:40:10","slug":"matt-boldy-becomes-first-iowa-wild-alumnus-to-win-olympic-gold-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/467519\/","title":{"rendered":"MATT BOLDY BECOMES FIRST IOWA WILD ALUMNUS TO WIN OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFeb 22, 2026<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{1241aca4-7ef8-49c7-a8a5-51fed3506cbf}{67}\" paraid=\"191520638\">MILAN, Italy\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Matt\u00a0Boldy became the first Iowa Wild\u00a0alumnus\u00a0to win\u00a0an Olympic gold medal as\u00a0Team USA beat Team Canada 2-1 in the gold medal game of the men&#8217;s hockey tournament at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 at\u00a0Santaguilia\u00a0Arena on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{89f3e041-be4f-4aa3-9cee-3b062b6932fb}{4}\" paraid=\"1420306565\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Boldy\u00a0scored Team USA&#8217;s lone regulation goal in the gold medal game and finished the tournament with four points (2-2=4). Boldy, who plays for the Minnesota Wild, recorded 28 points (10-18=28) in 24 games with Iowa (2020-22).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{31b75638-e6ce-419b-94db-8cf6421fab11}{187}\" paraid=\"1609047665\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Darcy Kuemper also earned a silver medal with Team Canada. Kuemper, who\u00a0posted a 9-13-0 record in 22 games with Iowa,\u00a0recorded\u00a0a 2.63 goals-against average\u00a0(GAA)\u00a0and a\u00a0.922 save percentage in two seasons (2013-15) in Des Moines.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{1241aca4-7ef8-49c7-a8a5-51fed3506cbf}{97}\" paraid=\"1201595081\">Iowa Wild defenseman David\u00a0Spacek represented Czechia at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympic games, skating in five games and notching one assist and four shots on goal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{33f9d852-1d04-4e9f-a314-929b7b759e09}{158}\" paraid=\"676726858\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Goaltender Samuel Hlavaj also represented Slovakia in Olympic play, posting a 2-3-0 record with a 3.56 GAA and a .908 SV% as Slovakia advanced to the bronze medal game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{1241aca4-7ef8-49c7-a8a5-51fed3506cbf}{125}\" paraid=\"344721219\">Iowa Wild hockey is presented by Kwik Star. For more information on Iowa Wild\u00a0hockey, visit\u202f<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.iowawild.com<\/a>. Season tickets for 2026-27\u00a0are on sale now. Fans can\u00a0purchase\u00a0season tickets for the upcoming season at\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/wild-365\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/wild-365<\/a>.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{1241aca4-7ef8-49c7-a8a5-51fed3506cbf}{169}\" paraid=\"1879771648\">Visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/pressbox\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.iowawild.com\/pressbox<\/a>\u00a0for the latest news and information from the team including press releases, game notes, multimedia content, and daily statistics.\u202f\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n<p paraeid=\"{1241aca4-7ef8-49c7-a8a5-51fed3506cbf}{189}\" paraid=\"367722430\">Iowa Wild home games are played at Casey\u2019s Center. Iowa Wild games are now streaming on AHLTV on\u00a0FloHockey. Fans can visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flosports.link\/4dyIrAx\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">FloHockey.tv<\/a>\u00a0now to create a free account, purchase subscriptions for the 2025-26 season, and watch all Iowa Wild games online.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 22, 2026 MILAN, Italy\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Matt\u00a0Boldy became the first Iowa Wild\u00a0alumnus\u00a0to win\u00a0an Olympic gold medal as\u00a0Team USA beat Team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5118],"tags":[401,29374,50070,5660,8559,1928,17229,5,8558,958,7807,15213,161,38,5280,4,2602,10510,47713,43,162],"class_list":{"0":"post-467519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-wild","8":"tag-ahl","9":"tag-boldy","10":"tag-darcy","11":"tag-david","12":"tag-des-moines","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-hlavaj","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-iowa","17":"tag-kuemper","18":"tag-matt","19":"tag-milan","20":"tag-minnesota","21":"tag-minnesota-wild","22":"tag-minnesotawild","23":"tag-nhl","24":"tag-olympics","25":"tag-samuel","26":"tag-spacek","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-wild"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116117164959227862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467519","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=467519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}