Overview
- Jack Hughes scored the overtime winner that secured Team USA’s first men’s hockey gold since 1980 on February 22 in Milan Cortina.
- Video from the locker room showed players laughing at Trump’s joke about also inviting the women’s team, drawing criticism and later expressions of regret from some team members.
- Hughes and his brother Quinn discussed the controversy on national TV, and the men’s team visited Washington for a White House stop and the State of the Union on February 24.
- Entertainment Tonight reports, via unnamed sources, that Hughes and singer Tate McRae are getting to know each other, calling it new and not super serious, with each attending the other’s events.
- Cosmopolitan, citing Sports Illustrated and screenshots, notes McRae liked and then removed a like on Quinn Hughes’ celebratory Instagram post, following earlier fan blowback over her appearance in an NBC Team USA ad despite being Canadian.