{"id":470471,"date":"2026-02-25T02:19:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/470471\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T02:19:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:19:43","slug":"mcavoy-swayman-arrive-at-white-house-bruins-might-play-without-them-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/470471\/","title":{"rendered":"McAvoy, Swayman Arrive at White House; Bruins Might Play Without Them Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two Boston Bruins players picked up a gold medal<\/a> at the Olympics in Milan and, since then, have celebrated on two continents.<\/p>\n

Now, they might not be back in time for Thursday\u2019s game at the TD Garden.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very tough to follow them,\u201d Sturm said about McAvoy and Swayman with a smile<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t even know where they\u2019re at right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know New York didn\u2019t work out for all of the guys because of the weather. They got stuck in Miami. Now, they\u2019re, I guess, seeing the president.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sunday night, the gold medalists celebrated at the rink<\/a> and at the US Winter House<\/a> in Milan. Initially, the plan was for the team to fly into New York City. The snowstorm that just hit the northeast derailed their plans, and instead, the team flew to Miami, Florida.<\/p>\n

They celebrated<\/a> at E11ven<\/a>, the same Miami club where the Florida Panthers partied after their back-to-back Stanley Cups. On Tuesday, Team USA boarded a military jet and flew to Washington, DC. They toured the White House and will join President Trump as a guest for the State of the Union.<\/p>\n

\"Team<\/p>\n

Photo Courtesy of Margo Martin\/@MargoMartin47 on \ud835\udd4f<\/p>\n

Both Charlie McAvoy and Jeremy Swayman were with the team at the White House on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

All but five members of Team USA (Jake Oettinger<\/a>, Jake Guentzel<\/a>, Brock Nelson<\/a>, Jackson LaCombe<\/a>, and Kyle Connor<\/a>) were at the White House.<\/p>\n

WATCH: Team USA Enters the White House to the tune of Free Bird<\/a><\/p>\n

The Bruins play on Thursday night at the TD Garden. The team practices at 11:00 AM at the Warrior Ice Arena in Brighton on Wednesday. They will have a morning skate on Thursday at 10:30 AM at the TD Garden.<\/p>\n

As for when the gold medalists will rejoin the team, Marco Sturm was not entirely sure.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, not sure when they [will] arrive. Hopefully, [they will] arrive soon because of the flight and the weather conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bruins get right back into their regular-season schedule on Thursday night. They will host Zach Werenski<\/a> and the Blue Jackets. They will travel to Philadelphia for an afternoon game on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Joonas Korpisalo<\/a> returned to the Bruins\u2019 practice today. He won a bronze medal with Team Finland at the Olympics.<\/p>\n

Sturm would not name him as a starter for Thursday, though.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot yet. I want to see how, first of all, Swayman is,\u201d Sturm said after practice. \u201cWe got Mikey (DiPietro) here, too, and Korpisalo. I think it\u2019s a good thing that he came today on the ice, and have at least two practices with us. I think he will be good to go on Thursday if we decide.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bruins, again, recalled Michael DiPietro<\/a> from the Providence Bruins. He joined the team last week as both goaltenders were in the Olympics.<\/p>\n

DiPietro, 26, is 22-6-0 this season. He has a 1.76 goals against average with a .938 save percentage, both of which lead the AHL.<\/p>\n

Whether the gold medalists arrive in time or not, the Bruins may have to rely on their depth<\/a> for their first game out of the break. With 25 games left, there is not much room for easing back in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Boston Bruins players picked up a gold medal at the Olympics in Milan and, since then, have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5099],"tags":[154,95,5132,530,2154,58,5,156,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-470471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-bruins","8":"tag-boston","9":"tag-boston-bruins","10":"tag-bostonbruins","11":"tag-bruins","12":"tag-charlie-mcavoy","13":"tag-featured","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-jeremy-swayman","16":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116128879829557972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470471","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=470471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}