{"id":486308,"date":"2026-03-05T05:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T05:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/486308\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T05:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T05:09:18","slug":"auston-matthews-girlfriend-go-public-after-usa-olympics-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/486308\/","title":{"rendered":"Auston Matthews, girlfriend go public after USA Olympics triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Olympic men\u2019s hockey captain Auston Matthews celebrated with his girlfriend, Vanessa Piunno, after the team\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/22\/sports\/usa-wins-olympic-gold-46-years-after-miracle-with-ot-win-over-canada\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gold-medal victory against Canada<\/a>\u00a0at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games, as seen in an Instagram post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Piunno, who is a certified skincare specialist and entrepreneur, shared photos of the pair partying in Milan, confirming they\u2019re an item.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA month to remember forever \u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f,\u201d Piunno captioned her post.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Olympic men\u2019s hockey captain Auston Matthews and his girlfriend, Vanessa Piunno, after Team USA\u2019s gold medal victory against Canada\u00a0at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.  Instagram\/ Vanessa Piunno<\/p>\n<p>One snapshot shows the former singer hugging Matthews, the captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n<p>He put his arm around her and held a glass of white wine in one hand. <\/p>\n<p>Piunno, who is based in Toronto, sported a Milano Cortina Olympics jacket with Matthews\u2019 name on the color and his No. 34 on the arm.<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa Piunno, the girlfriend of U.S. Olympic men\u2019s hockey captain Auston Matthews. Instagram\/Vanessa Piunno <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear how long the pair have been dating. <\/p>\n<p>Matthews and his Olympic teammates <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/24\/sports\/team-usa-rages-at-miami-nightclub-after-gold-medal-win-at-olympics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">partied at E11even nightclub in Miami <\/a>after a dramatic 2-1 overtime win against the Canadians on Feb. 22.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Hughes (L) and Auston Matthews attend a celebration of the USA Men\u2019s hockey team\u2019s olympic gold at E11EVEN Miami on February 23, 2026 in Miami, Florida.   Getty Images for E11EVEN Miami<\/p>\n<p>After that, he visited the White House with most of his teammates last Tuesday, but did not stick around for U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s State of the Union address.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s team faced backlash in the wake of their gold-medal victory for how they responded to a joke made by Trump during their celebratory phone call in the locker room \u2014 when the president said he would have to invite the U.S. women\u2019s hockey team following their gold medal win in Milan or else, \u201cI believe I probably would be impeached.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Members of the men\u2019s team could be heard laughing in a viral video of the call, which was facilitated by FBI director Kash Patel, on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Gold medalist Auston Matthews #34 of Team United States celebrates after the medal ceremony for men\u2019s ice hockey after the U.S. beat Canada at the Winter Olympics on February 22, 2026 in Milan, Italy.   Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Trump said in his SOTU address that the women\u2019s hockey team will \u201csoon\u201d visit the White House, despite the team<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/23\/sports\/usa-womens-hockey-team-declines-trumps-state-of-the-union-invite\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0declining his invitation<\/a>\u00a0due to scheduling conflicts following their 2-1 overtime victory against Canada in the gold-medal game in Milan.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Olympic men\u2019s hockey captain Auston Matthews celebrated with his girlfriend, Vanessa Piunno, after the team\u2019s gold-medal victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[532,5,4,43,353,31,422,7924,2787,31286],"class_list":["post-486308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-auston-matthews","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-usa-hockey","tag-wags","tag-winter-olympics","tag-winter-olympics-2026"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116174845631945441","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486308","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=486308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}