{"id":573533,"date":"2026-05-13T02:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/573533\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:00:20","slug":"matthew-and-brady-tkachuk-tell-the-story-of-team-usa-smuggling-beer-into-the-olympic-village-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/573533\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew and Brady Tkachuk tell the story of Team USA smuggling beer into the Olympic Village"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 2026 U.S. men’s hockey team<\/a> is going to go down as one of the most iconic teams in American sports history.<\/p>\n

However, NHL stars Matthew Tkachuk of the Florida Panthers<\/a> and Brady Tkachuk of the Ottawa Senators \u2014 both members of that team \u2014 said there was another moment they knew the team was different.<\/p>\n

That moment? Smuggling some brewskis into the Olympic Village.<\/p>\n

Say it with me: USA! USA! USA!<\/p>\n

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\"Team <\/p>\n

Team USA hockey players celebrate their 2-1 overtime victory against Canada to win the gold medal in the men’s gold medal match at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy, on Feb. 22, 2026. (Elsa\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The Tkachuks \u2014 whose summers started earlier than I’m sure either one would’ve liked \u2014 welcomed ex-NHLer Shane O’Brien onto their “Wingmen” podcastWingmen podcast, and the two told a wild story about how trying to get some beers galvanized the boys in their quest for gold<\/a>.<\/p>\n

O’Brien, a Canadian, commended the Americans for shacking up in the Olympic Village, and Matthew said that helped the team bond.<\/p>\n

They then told a story about how they brought some beers into the Village, which they were under the impression was dry.<\/p>\n

\"Tage <\/p>\n

Buffalo Sabres star Tage Thompson was a key figure in a wild Team USA beer run at the Olympics that Matthew and Brady Tkachuk say helped galvanize the team. (Winslow Townson-Imagn Images)<\/p>\n

It started with a team dinner and a plan to go to a bar. However, the bar they went into was about to close. When it was closing time, they loaded up on beers to take back to the Village.<\/p>\n

Most of these were in brown paper bags, except for the ones being shepherded by star Tage Thompson, who simply had a case of cold ones that he carried on his shoulder.<\/p>\n

“All of a sudden, Tage just has a case on his shoulder,” Brady said. “(We) walk right through the security, (he) sets it down like on the X-ray machine, and like we’re like, ‘What is going on right now?'”<\/p>\n

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The concern, of course, was that Thompson, a key player for the Americans, would get booted from the Village.<\/p>\n

Instead, security said nothing, and Thompson walked around with a case of beer on his shoulder like it was a boombox, according to Brady.<\/p>\n

“This is what I knew we had a tight group when we were going through that,” he said. “It was that was a blast.”<\/p>\n

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\"Brady <\/p>\n

Brady Tkachuk, Jack Hughes, Matthew Tkachuk and Quinn Hughes attend a celebration of the U.S. men’s hockey team’s Olympic gold at E11EVEN Miami in Miami, Fla., on Feb. 23, 2026. (Alexander Tamargo\/Getty Images for E11EVEN Miami)<\/p>\n

Matthew agreed.<\/p>\n

“So yeah, I knew once Tage did that we had a very good chance of winning it,” the Panthers forward said. “I’m like, ‘Oh f–k, everything’s working right for us right now, fellas.'”<\/p>\n

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He was right.<\/p>\n

So, maybe at the 2030 Games in the French Alps, Team Canada will go on a few more beer runs.<\/p>\n

Matthew Reigle is a writer for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 U.S. men’s hockey team is going to go down as one of the most iconic teams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,4,2602,62895],"class_list":["post-573533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-olympics","tag-outkick-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116564802295688942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573533","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=573533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}