{"id":470820,"date":"2026-02-25T07:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/470820\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T07:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:04:14","slug":"bruins-players-ma-natives-among-those-honored-by-trump-at-state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/470820\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins players, MA natives among those honored by Trump at State of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump lauded the\u00a0gold medal-winning<\/a>\u00a0U.S. men’s hockey team<\/a>, including some members from Massachusetts, during his State of the Union address<\/a> Feb. 24.<\/p>\n

After talking about how much “winning” the United States has been doing, Trump introduced the U.S. men’s hockey team,\u00a0which entered to chants of “USA!”<\/a><\/p>\n

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20 of the 25 members of the team, including two Boston Bruins players, Charlie McAvoy and Jeremy Swayman<\/a>, as well as Millis, Massachusetts native Matt Boldy, were\u00a0expected to appear<\/a>\u00a0at the speech.<\/p>\n

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Charlie McAvoy arrives for Donald Trump’s State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Trump also announced that the team’s goaltender Connor Hellebuyck, who played for the University of Massachusetts Lowell<\/a>, will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day,\u00a0the team<\/a>\u00a0had toured the White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The five players that are not in D.C., per various reports: Brock Nelson, Jake Guentzel, Kyle Connor, Jake Oettinger and Jackson LaCombe.<\/p>\n

State of the Union honor follows viral Kash Patel locker room celebration, Trump call<\/p>\n

Following the\u00a0team’s 2-1 overtime victory over rivals Canada<\/a>, the U.S. men’s hockey team began celebrating in their locker room. They even shared a few drinks\u00a0with FBI director Kash Patel<\/a>. In the midst of the celebration, the team received a call from the commander-in-chief himself.<\/p>\n

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During the call, the president praised the team, calling them “unbelievable,” specifically shouting out goaltender Connor Hellebuyck. Toward the end of the call, Trump made a point to invite the players to Tuesday’s State of the Union address, and it appears most of the team took the president up on that offer.<\/p>\n

Contributing: Jon Hoefling<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Telegram & Gazette: Trump honors US men’s hockey team, including Bruins players, during State of the Union<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump lauded the\u00a0gold medal-winning\u00a0U.S. men’s hockey team, including some members from Massachusetts, during his State of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5099],"tags":[154,95,5132,1034,530,2154,1171,23,5,818,1709,1331,424,156,1290,1805,799,4,56759,56902],"class_list":["post-470820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-bruins","tag-boston","tag-boston-bruins","tag-bostonbruins","tag-brock-nelson","tag-bruins","tag-charlie-mcavoy","tag-connor-hellebuyck","tag-donald-trump","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-team","tag-jackson-lacombe","tag-jake-guentzel","tag-jake-oettinger","tag-jeremy-swayman","tag-kyle-connor","tag-massachusetts","tag-matt-boldy","tag-nhl","tag-state-of-the-union-address","tag-university-of-massachusetts-lowell"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116130000101859622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470820","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=470820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}