Millionaire US Men's Hockey Team get to fly to DC on the US taxpayer dime!

[AStern]

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/usa-men-hockey-team-parties-194746775.html

The Team USA men’s hockey team is enjoying life thoroughly after winning its first Olympic gold medal in over 46 years, and their cool journey from the 2026 Winter Olympics has landed them back in the United States.

After spending Monday night partying it up in Miami at famous nightclub E11even, the USA men’s hockey team is now heading to Washington D.C. to visit president Donald Trump at the White House.

However, the American team received an awfully unique experience after being able to ride on Air Force One to the nation’s capital. That included many NHL players cracking open beers and continuing the party.

[CousinIT]

1. The old asshole would never do that for the women's team.

They'd have to pay their own way.

[AStern]

3. I notice that other gold medal winners haven't been invited

[Klarkashton]

2. The fact that NHL professionals won that hockey game

Is sort of embarrassing. This whole thing is bullshit.

[maxsolomon]

7. The Canadians were all NHL players

and most of the Swedish, Czech & Slovak teams.

why is it BS?

[Klarkashton]

10. Might as well just call it "all star hockey"

And forget the medals and get right to the cash.

Same thing goes for that basketball "team" .

[sarisataka]

8. Those Canadian amateur kids put up a good fight

Too bad that beer leaguer Crosby was out; I think he might have made a name for himself if he had tried to play pro hockey.

The reason 1980 was so special was the US was truly an amateur team. The Soviets were professional in all but name.

[bluestarone]

4. I'm so ashamed about this. By

Going to see TSF, they just lost that gold medal!

[BlueTsunami2018]

5. It really sucks that the enjoyment was taken out of this victory.

I’ve been a huge hockey fan my whole life and I feel like all the energy and celebratory feeling about this was ruined because of the political climate.

This should have been a huge unifying moment and instead it ended up being a partisan thing because of the asshole and his cronies putting their fingers all over it.

There’s not a lot to be proud of with the country right now.

At least I got to enjoy the women’s team winning.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. The flight was not operating as Air Force One.

It had the callsign SAM335.

SAM335, https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfeba

Tue Feb 24, 2026: Has this plane been sent from Joint Base Andrews to Miami to bring the men's hockey team to the SOTU?

[OC375]

9. There are no winners anymore

I was excited they won, and could have done without being shown yet again how crass people can be. I think the Olympics are about played out for me.