{"id":472813,"date":"2026-02-26T10:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/472813\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:40:14","slug":"tage-thompson-team-usa-buffalo-sabres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/472813\/","title":{"rendered":"Tage Thompson Team USA Buffalo Sabres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gold Medal winner Tage Thompson returned to his day job yesterday and helped lead the Buffalo Sabres to win over Team USA hero Jack Hughes and the New Jersey Devils.<\/p>\n<p>Tage Thompson Returns To Help Buffalo Sabres Win<\/p>\n<p>Thompson has a goal and an assist in the Sabres 2-1 win over New Jersey, including this takeaway from Hughes. <\/p>\n<p>Tage Thompson Under Fire For Wearing MAGA Hat At White House<\/p>\n<p>It was not all great news for Thompson in his return to the Sabres. He was under fire on social media after a photo surfaced of him wearing a MAGA Hat while at the White House on Tuesday. Several people took to social media to criticize the Team USA forward.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenew961.com\/ixp\/17\/p\/buffalo-bills-interactive-view-highmark-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">READ MORE: TAKE A VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE NEW HOME OF THE BUFFALO BILLS, HIGHMARK STADIUM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One hockey insider event said that Canadian players, who lost to Thompson and Team USA, would be targeting him for the rest of the NHL season.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think it is fair that Thompson should be criticized for wearing a MAGA Hat? Let us know using our APP or send me a message <a href=\"https:\/\/wbuf.com\/tage-thompson-buffalo-sabres\/mailto:dave.fields@townsquaremedia.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/attachment-900.jpg\" alt=\"92.9 WBUF logo\"\/>Tage Thompson of the Buffalo Sabres<\/p>\n<p>5 pictures of the superstar forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gold Medal winner Tage Thompson returned to his day job yesterday and helped lead the Buffalo Sabres to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5100],"tags":[1107,16872,229,5133,5,4,1108,86],"class_list":{"0":"post-472813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-sabres","8":"tag-buffalo","9":"tag-buffalo-events","10":"tag-buffalo-sabres","11":"tag-buffalosabres","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-sabres","15":"tag-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116136511822442249","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472813","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=472813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}