MNST: The U.S. wins their first gold medal in Men's hockey since the Miracle On Ice in 1980

Garage Logic

Gamut Podcast Network

News

4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The U.S. wins their first gold medal in Men's hockey since the Miracle On Ice in 1980

Exactly 46 years after the "Miracle on Ice" Lake Placid Games, the U.S. men's hockey team brought home another Olympic gold medal.

Team USA defeated Canada 2-1 in overtime on Sunday to secure the third gold medal in American history at the Olympics.

“I hope this will inspire kids to put this jersey on someday, as it’s the best feeling in the world," Dylan Larkin said after the win. "What we just did, nothing will ever match this.”

Matt Boldy got on the board for Team USA just six minutes into the game to give the United States an early lead.

Canadian defenseman Cale Makar scored the equalizer with 1:44 left in second period to tie the game at one apiece going into the second intermission.

But it was Connor Hellebuyck, who played out of his mind the entire game, who would prove to the deciding factor in the final. The Winnipeg Jets goalie put on a highlight-reel performance that will go down in hockey history.

"It was an all-time performance from a superstar at his position," Matthew Tkachuk said. "It's going to go down as one of the best performances of all time. It has to. All the great United States goaltending performances you want to talk about, that's right up there. If we don't have him, we don't win.”

Hellebuyck saved 41 shots in the game and made it virtually impossible for Canada to break through to the back of the net.

"It's a dream come true," Hellebuyck said after the game. "I love this group, we've had so much fun over here, we've grinded, we've battled, this is some of the best and most fun hockey I've ever played."

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	How is your garage floor looking?
0:02.0	Dirty, damaged or new, garage floor geeks is ready to restore or protect it in just one day with concrete floor coatings guaranteed to last a lifetime.
0:11.0	Garage Floor Geeks is locally owned and operated and the Twin Cities choice for concrete floor coatings.
0:17.0	Mention garage logic and get free moving in storage or $600 off.
0:22.4	Schedule your free estimate today by going online or calling 763-265 geek.
0:28.3	That's 763-265 geek to schedule your free concrete floor coding estimate now.
0:36.6	Music voting estimate now.
0:48.8	You can reprise your line after 1980.
0:50.0	It had a hot goal.
0:51.1	Hot goalie.
0:52.5	We did have a hot goli.
0:59.4	I'm calling it surprise on ice. It's not a miracle on ice. It was a surprise on ice.
1:08.7	It was fun, man. I saw we in the strip that had the word miracle in there, miracle repeated or something like that. It really, not the same kind of miracle.
1:11.7	The whole miracle was them beating the Russians.
1:14.5	Yes, and the U.S. might have got outplayed, but not by that much,
1:20.1	and they can skate up and down the ice just like those other guys.
1:24.3	And in fact, they didn't have the requirement to play one line two-thirds of the
1:30.3	time like the Canadians did. What do they got Brad Marchand still limping around at age 37 and, you know.
1:38.3	Boy, he's easy to hate, isn't he? He was on his best behavior, but he would really like to hit you
1:46.1	with a head with a stick, you know. I have to tell you this, though. Then you got the two boneheads. Well, you were a little hard on the Tchuk brothers. The Chuck brothers. Cementhead, you called. Oh, my gosh. They are cement heads, but the people thought it was a, I was doing it because of Trump. I didn't I don't pay enough attention to hockey to know that they
2:02.7	were pals of Trump. Oh, I was doing it because of Trump. I didn't, I don't pay enough attention to hockey to know that they were pals of Trump.
2:04.0	Oh, I didn't know that either.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Gamut Podcast Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Gamut Podcast Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.