{"id":468341,"date":"2026-02-23T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/468341\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:56:10","slug":"nathan-mackinnon-stuffed-animal-reaction-at-olympics-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/468341\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan MacKinnon stuffed animal reaction at Olympics goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Feb. 23, 2026, 8:44 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/2026\/02\/22\/nathan-mackinnon-choke-canada-usa-better-team-comments\/88812812007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan MacKinnon has already made his feelings known<\/a> about his Team Canada loss to the United States in the Olympic men&#8217;s hockey gold-medal game on Sunday, telling reporters, &#8220;You be the judge of who was the better team today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But there was also the moment caught on camera of the alternate captain and Colorado Avalanche superstar looking furious as he&#8217;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&#8217;s going through his head at that moment, and that&#8217;s what folks did on social media:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_gl gnt_em__el\" href=\"http:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/picture-gallery\/sports\/olympics\/2026\/02\/22\/usa-hockey-olympic-gold-medal-celebration-photos\/88812196007\/\" data-t-l=\"\u2691g:l|l|c|view gallery:inline promo\" aria-label=\"View Gallery - 13 photos of Men&#039;s Hockey&#039;s jubilant Olympic gold medal celebration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/88812174007-usatsi-28314100.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\"\/><\/a><a class=\"gnt_em_ig_bl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVE0LlskQXX\/?igsh=NG9zYm4xNTNsaHc3&amp;img_index=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" aria-label=\"view Instagram post: \"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Rough day for MacKinnon and that stuffed animal.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Feb. 23, 2026, 8:44 a.m. ET Nathan MacKinnon has already made his feelings known about his Team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[50358,193,192,144,5277,5,4,9492,50438,50364,50455,50383,50365,56678,50361],"class_list":{"0":"post-468341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-avalanche","10":"tag-colorado","11":"tag-colorado-avalanche","12":"tag-coloradoavalanche","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-sstssportsnhl","16":"tag-sstsnnhl","17":"tag-taghockey","18":"tag-tagolympics","19":"tag-tagoverall-negative","20":"tag-tagsports-news","21":"tag-tagstuffed-toys","22":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116121008869097601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468341","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=468341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}