men's hockey team are feeling the heat. "Everyone is giving us backlash for all the social media stuff today"

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Speaking in Miami Monday, Hughes - who became a global superstar for scoring the winning goal victory while bleeding from the loss of two front teeth - told the Daily Mail: 'They've got busy schedules, too. Everyone is giving us backlash for all the social media stuff today.

'People are so negative out there and they are just trying to find a reason to put people down and make something out of almost nothing.
'Our relationship with them, over the course of being in the Athletes' Village, I think we are so tight with their group.

'After we won the gold medal, we were in the cafeteria at 3.30am in the morning with them and we go from there, pack our bags and we're on the bus.

'People are so negative about things. I think everyone in that locker room knows how much we support them, how proud we are of them and we know the same way we feel about them, they feel about us.' 

Trump called the men's team on Sunday after their stunning 2-1 overtime win over Canada at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. He joked that he would 'be impeached' if he did not invite the women's team as well, who also took home gold at the Games.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/winterolympics/article-15586847/jack-hughes-team-usa-hockey-trump.html

[tintinvotes]

1. Clueless 😕

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

2. Yeah but im glad their celebrations are tarnished. Laughing Fools!

[agingdem]

12. completely...

do these man-child hockey players live in a jock bubble?..do they not get that Kash Patel is an odious pedo protector..that his pedo boss is a sadistic amoral revenge-fueled racist misogynist?...that the world hates our guts, and Trump wipes his fat ass with the Constitution?...

the Olympics gold medal winning women's hockey team have more compassion and class than the whole of the men's hockey team...

[GaYellowDawg]

18. That is exactly it.

They live in a jock bubble. Their lives are completely subsumed by preparation for the Olympics. I am going to give them some credit: they had just won the gold over an extremely talented and heavily favored Canadian team for the first men's gold in 46 years. I think they were so deliriously happy that anyone, as long as they were excited for them, would have been welcome in the moment.

So yeah, I'm willing to give them a pass for the moment. How I feel about them will depend on how much I hear "everyone's picking on us" over the next few days or unless they make statements supporting Trump when they've come down from the victory high. I don't give a pass to Patel. He had no business worming his way into the locker room, and he sure as hell had no business having the taxpayers fund his private flight over there.

[calcin]

41. No Pass

I am not giving the Men's Hockey Team a pass bc they were excited. I am not saying they should have spit on Patel or been rude to Trump, but they showed who they were when they laughed with Trump's over his comments about the women's team. They showed who they were when they partied with Patel in the locker room. Then, when called on it, do they apologize? Not to my knowledge. Instead, they do what MAGAs do, become the victims. I shouldn't say all of them, but certainly those on display and those attending tonight.

[synni]

42. I respectfully disagree

I don't give that team a pass. Never in my life will I be "happy" enough to celebrate with pedophiles and pedophile protectors.

I hope none of these guys get any endorsements. They deserve to be blacklisted.

[evolves]

47. The women's team

have also had their lives completely subsumed with preparations for the Olympic Games, which they also won in their sport.
It’s not difficult to be attentive to current affairs and to show support and compassion for fellow Team USA members who are being debased by the cretinous squatting in the White House.

[efhmc]

48. Those "men" do not deserve to be in the same room as the women who have won 3 gold metals. Creepy US male culture.

[AStern]

3. High School educated multi-millionaires are scratching their heads... golly gee.

Hockey is my fave sport and these guys are ruining it.

FWIW... I knew team US was largely Trumpers - so I rooted for Canada.

[Prairie Gates]

16. Yuuuuup

[murielm99]

37. I rooted for Canada because it is their sport.

Also, my daughter, a hockey fan, lives in Toronto with her husband. He is a Canadian citizen. She love him, and she loves Toronto.

[JT45242]

40. Don't forget it is by far the most white major sport in north America

Probably no more than 15 Hispanic players in the NHL.maybe 2%

Less than 4% of the nhl is black.

The NHL probably has more opportunities for maga misogynist and racist players than any sport.

[Wuddles440]

45. I too did so for the very reason you cited!

[yourout]

4. The second the bug eyed bastard was filmed in the locker..

Room all the good will was flushed down the toilet.

[tanyev]

5. I saw a lot of words in that article about the brotherhood of hockey, how they support each other.

Unless I read it wrong, I did not see one word of congratulations or support for the women's team who accomplished the exact same thing the men's team did.

😒

[leftstreet]

9. +1

[calcin]

43. AGREE

This, exactly!

[Walleye]

6. No sorry dude, people are only negative about Trump

Think about it for a second

[newdeal2]

8. And Kash

Why the hell was he there partying with them?

[Walleye]

22. Kash is such a dork. It's embarrassing

[Autumn]

39. i disagree. Not one of those assholes stood up for the women's hocky team.

AFAIC the mens hockey team can shove their medals up Trumps and crazy eyes asses.

[calcin]

44. Agree

Spot on. I agree. Plus, it looked and sounded as if most of them laughed with Trump about the women's team's comments. Ugh who would party with Patel? MAGAs that's who.

[flvegan]

7. You're going to hang out with someone who allegedly raped children. "Excited" was, I believe

one of the words tossed around in interviews, to be going to meet Trump at the White House.

Maybe some things transcend politics, guy. Oddly, Hughes has (IIRC) been a decent advocate for Pride/LGBTQ in the past. Seems an odd turn for him.

I don't know, maybe there's other social media stuff I missed and this isn't a Trump thing. I don't really do social media, so I really wouldn't know.

[NCDem47]

10. I get it. The team was in the moment after the game. So much going on. No one really paying attention.

But that was then and this is now. Those players needed to (or need to) say something diplomatic and distance themselves from Patel/Trump ("Our win was for all Americans, blah, blah, blah. No SOTU. Go the WH down the road with all the US Olympians which would be customary.

F'n Patel and Trump trying to get in on it. Always about them. "A big, strong hockey pleyer came up to me with tears in his eyes and said, 'This one is for you POTUS."

[Prairie Gates]

15. They literally put a gold medal around Kash Patel's neck

These weren't sins of omission.

[ProfessorGAC]

49. What Rankles Me Further Is That...

...only the players get medals.
None for the coaches; none for trainers: none for support staff; nonevfor team management; non for trainers...
But, one of them let Patel wear his medal. Didn't lend it to the head coach to wear, but to a glory hound who used taxpayer money to take a luxury trip.
And, "people are so negative" surprises him?
Don't do stupid things and he won't get the negativity.

[GaYellowDawg]

19. This is what I really meant to say.

Thanks for saying it better than I did!

[senseandsensibility]

20. I hate to say it but the dust has settled

and they are still not putting out a statement like you suggest or apparently even considering it. I don't think they will.

[2naSalit]

11. Cry me a fucking river...

You clueless *^#^.

[haele]

13. Dudes. The First Rule of Social Media is don't post anything large numbers of people will attack you for...

If someone has a phone out, pipe down and sober up.
There's no such thing as "Locker Room Talk" or "We were just joking", or "Whaaaah, I was drunk and obviously didn't mean it, why are you all so pissy?" any more -
-i f you are a grown assed adult but want to act like a 15 year old drunk Jackass, you are going to get called on it if you let your stupidity get recorded.

[Prairie Gates]

14. Hughes is...not a smart guy

[mahatmakanejeeves]

17. If it's in the Daily Mail, it has to be ... what's the word I'm looking for? NT

[Prairie Gates]

21. The article seems like a collection of quotes and known facts

Are you disputing anything in the article?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

26. I'll wait for a second source, thanks.

And I don't mean the Irish Star.

And good afternoon.

[Prairie Gates]

28. For what?

I mean, I distrust the Daily Mail as much as the next guy, but there was literally nothing in this article that wasn't a direct quotation from Hughes or a known fact (Patel partied in the locker room, Trump called).

[Walleye]

23. Some people get all excited when they're that close to that much power. They don't care as long as it's power.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

32. True but 2 hockey players had the morals to say positive stuff rather than laughing

Through the uproarous laughter 2 voices were heard saying positive things about the women's hockey rather than mindlessly laughing

[Initech]

24. Yeah, do you not get that our shitty president is an extremely terrible person?

[Coventina]

25. Boo FUCKING hoo!!

Stick your medal in your word-hole and SHUT UP!

[Blues Heron]

27. Way to piss away any good will, idiots.

[apcalc]

29. Repulsive ...yup like Trump

[Maru Kitteh]

30. Hashtag CHINGATUMAGA, you entitled pricks.

Actions and consequences. Fuck all of you who cheered that misogynist lizzard wattle, imo. All of you.

[pinkstarburst]

31. Seems like someone could have worked an APOLOGY

in there, huh? Oh, guess they forgot to do that.

[JustAnotherGen]

33. Cry babies

That's all I've got to say about that.

[a kennedy]

34. We'll just saw the bunch of them on the South Lawn of the White House for their visit to the SOTU.

[usonian]

35. Kiss your medals goodbye after leaving the SPITE HOUSE.

You won't make it past the MEDAL DETECTOR.

[Jilly_in_VA]

36. Didn't bother with this game

Basically two NHL all star teams going at each other. So what? Now the WOMEN'S game.....that was a JOY to watch!

[Wednesdays]

38. Well, that's a shame.

[otchmoson]

46. My message to Comm Director @ USA Hockey

Dave Fischer:

I must say the locker room performance of the men’s hockey team went a long way toward nullifying their achievement. By allowing a pedo-protecting stooge to share their victory as though he had earned it, in the most obnoxious frat boy way, and then joining in laughter as Degenerate Donnie debased women, turned the win and white house invite into an insignificant dirty, misogynist joke. The team was incredibly disrespectful to the women's team, and it was appalling that not a single one of them was brave enough to say "that's not funny" and that every woman deserved an apology from them. On the other hand, the women hockey team represented the game with character and discipline. Watching the men undermine their sport is heartbreaking.
https://www.usahockey.com