Workrate Hockey - February 24, 2026
The U.S. men's team brings home gold - we're supposed to be happy, right?
Sunday morning, while you were still having your coffee, New Jersey's Jack Hughes took a feed from Columbus' Zach Werenski and buried it past Jordan Binnington (wait, really? Jordan Binnington?) to bring home gold for the US Men's Olympic hockey team for the first time since 1980 and only the third time in Olympic history. "Only" three gold medals actually puts the US in third place, behind Canada's nine and Russia's seven or nine, depending on if you're counting the two teams in 1992 and 2018 that were basically Russian/Soviet teams but not officially operating under the flag of either country for different reasons.
You would think that a large percentage of the USA would have been pulling for the men's team, and in another year maybe that happens, but this year? Ehhh...
