{"id":471004,"date":"2026-02-25T10:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/471004\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:15:18","slug":"nhl-deletes-dylan-strome-girl-dad-post-amid-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/471004\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Deletes Dylan Strome \u2018Girl Dad\u2019 Post Amid Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">The National Hockey League (NHL) deleted a social media post celebrating Washington Capitals center Dylan Strome as a \u201cgirl dad\u201d after online backlash linked it to a video of U.S. men\u2019s Olympic hockey players laughing during a phone call with President Donald Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/olympics\/canadian-hockey-player-backlash-nhl-girl-dad-post\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to Total Pro Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/us-hockey-trump-white-house\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A video circulated<\/a> showing members of the U.S. men\u2019s team laughing while Trump joked on a congratulatory call about also having to invite the gold-winning U.S. women\u2019s team to the State of the Union, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/sports\/olympics\/trump-ignites-culture-war-us-hockey-gold-medal-winners-rcna260432\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drew swift online criticism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Amid that reaction, the NHL\u2019s X account posted a photo of Strome with his daughter with the caption, \u201cDylan Strome is the ultimate girl dad,\u201d before deleting it as critical comments accumulated, according to the outlet. Although some negative comments were levelled towards Strome, the player is Canadian and was not present at the Olympics, per Total Pro Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Newsweek contacted the NHL for comment via online form on Wednesday, outside of standard working hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">This is a developing story, more to follow.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"11578360\" alt=\"\" caption=\"PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - FEBRUARY 3: Dylan Strome #17 of the Washington Capitals controls the puck against the Philadelphia Flyers at Xfinity Mobile Arena on February 3, 2026 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Flyers defeated the Capitals 4-2. (Photo by Mitchell Leff\/Getty Images)\" captionoverride=\"Dylan Strome #17 of the Washington Capitals controls the puck against the Philadelphia Flyers at Xfinity Mobile Arena on February 3, 2026 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.\" credit=\"Mitchell Leff\" sourcealt=\"\" sources=\"[&quot;Getty Images&quot;]\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"3223\" height=\"2149\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;aspect-ratio:inherit;object-fit:cover\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-2260552988.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Hockey League (NHL) deleted a social media post celebrating Washington Capitals center Dylan Strome as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,4,2602,7667],"class_list":{"0":"post-471004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-olympics","11":"tag-social-media"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116130752141011814","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471004","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=471004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}