{"id":471985,"date":"2026-02-25T23:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/471985\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:41:13","slug":"sabres-thompson-on-once-in-a-lifetime-olympic-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/471985\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres&#8217; Thompson on &#8216;once-in-a-lifetime&#8217; Olympic experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo Sabres forward and now Olympic gold medalist Tage Thompson has rejoined the Blue and Gold after the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres are officially back from the more than two-week-long Olympic break, as they now drop the puck on a three-game road trip.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Wednesday night&#8217;s game against the New Jersey Devils, Thompson reflected on the experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and to even be there is such an honor to even just be named an Olympian, but then to win gold is something, to be honest, I never thought could be a reality,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cIt is something you dream about, but we have something really special going on here, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Sabres don&#8217;t return home until next Wednesday, when they play host to Jack Eichel and the Vegas Golden Knights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo Sabres forward and now Olympic gold medalist Tage Thompson has rejoined the Blue and Gold after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5100],"tags":[1249,1107,229,5133,5,40,4,2944,1108,4093,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-471985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-sabres","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-sabres","11":"tag-buffalosabres","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-rochester","16":"tag-sabres","17":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116133919769091395","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471985","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=471985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}