Boston Bruins
“Now we have a lot respect for the ladies’s workforce, and to share that gold medal with them is one thing that we’re eternally grateful for.”
Chatting with reporters in Boston on Wednesday, Bruins goaltender Jeremy Swayman mentioned that the U.S. males’s hockey workforce ought to have had a distinct response after President Donald Trump made a joke in regards to the U.S. girls’s hockey workforce after each groups received gold on the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Shortly after the U.S. men’s team bested Canada on Sunday in a 2-1 overtime victory, video captured inside the People’ dressing room at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Area went viral.
As Workforce USA celebrated their first gold medal in Olympic males’s hockey since 1980 — with FBI director Kash Patel additionally within the U.S. dressing room — the gamers obtained a telephone name from Trump.
In the course of the name, video captured Trump inviting the boys’s workforce to Washington DC, whereas additionally making a joke in regards to the U.S. girls’s hockey workforce — which received its third Olympic gold medal on Thursday after additionally defeating Canada, 2-1, in additional time.
“I need to inform you, we’re going to need to deliver the ladies’s workforce, you do know that,” Trump mentioned, including that he’d “most likely be impeached” if he didn’t invite the ladies’s workforce. A number of of the boys’s workforce gamers laughed at Trump’s remark.
On Wednesday, Swayman mentioned that he and his teammates regretted that response.
“We should always have reacted otherwise. We all know that,” Swayman said. “We’re so excited for the ladies’s workforce. Now we have a lot respect for the ladies’s workforce, and to share that gold medal with them is one thing that we’re eternally grateful for. And now that we’re house, we get to share that collectively eternally and see the unimaginable help that we’ve got from the USA and sharing this unimaginable gold medal.”
Whereas Swayman, Charlie McAvoy and a majority of Workforce USA met with Trump on Tuesday on the White Home and attended the State of the Union handle later that night time, the U.S. women’s team declined Trump’s invitation.
A workforce USA spokesperson cited earlier commitments as the explanation why the ladies’s workforce didn’t be a part of the boys’s workforce in Washington DC.
“We’re sincerely grateful for the invitation prolonged to our gold medal-winning U.S. Girls’s Hockey Workforce and deeply recognize the popularity of their extraordinary achievement,” Team USA said in a statement, per The Athletic. “Because of the timing and beforehand scheduled tutorial {and professional} commitments following the Video games, the athletes are unable to take part. They had been honored to be included and are grateful for the acknowledgment.”
Throughout Trump’s speech on the US Capitol on Tuesday night time, he said that the U.S. women’s team would be visiting with him “soon,” though no formal plans have been introduced but.
“It was an unimaginable honor. We had been all there to symbolize our nation and rejoice a gold medal for the USA,” Swayman mentioned of Tuesday’s journey to Washington. “That was one thing we actually embodied and had been actually grateful to be part of.”
Three gamers on the US girls’s workforce additionally play for the PWHL’s Boston Fleet — goalie Aerin Frankel, defender Haley Winn, and captain Megan Keller, who scored the golden objective towards Canada final week.
“Loads of us have crossed paths with them, whether or not it was in faculty and the skilled league, too,” Swayman mentioned of the US girls’s hockey tram. “We had been so excited for them to get it performed first. Seeing them within the eating corridor and sharing the victories collectively is one thing we’ll cherish eternally.”
Swayman was again on the ice along with his Bruins teammates at Warrior Ice Area on Wednesday, only a day earlier than Boston resumes play with a house recreation towards the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Bruins head coach Marco Sturm said that both Swayman and McAvoy arrived back in Boston between 3 and 4 a.m. Wednesday morning and got an elective day to skate — with Swayman collaborating in follow.
It’s unclear whether or not each Swayman and McAvoy will play on Thursday towards Columbus, though each are slated to participate in morning skate Thursday morning at TD Backyard.
As Swayman seems to be to assist Boston solidify its spot within the playoff image over the membership’s remaining 25 regular-season video games, the 27-year-old netminder is grateful that he was in a position to go away Italy with some Olympic {hardware}.
“It’s unimaginable,” Swayman mentioned. “It’s beginning to sink in now, the response that we’ve gotten from individuals in the usthe second we landed down, and simply the outreach of household. [It’s] a childhood dream come true. And the group that we did it with, particularly the best way we did it — it’s an unbelievable feeling, unimaginable feeling, that we’ll cherish eternally.’
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