{"id":229941,"date":"2026-02-23T04:55:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/brotherly-love-jack-and-quinn-hughes-help-deliver-team-usas-first-olympic-gold-medal-since-1980\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T04:55:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:55:55","slug":"brotherly-love-jack-and-quinn-hughes-help-deliver-team-usas-first-olympic-gold-medal-since-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/brotherly-love-jack-and-quinn-hughes-help-deliver-team-usas-first-olympic-gold-medal-since-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Brotherly love: Jack and Quinn Hughes help deliver Team USA&#8217;s first Olympic gold medal since 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Entering the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Milan Cortina Olympics<\/a>, left wingers Brady and Matthew Tkachuk received the most attention for Team USA. However, it was another pair of brothers who became America&#8217;s biggest hockey heroes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/olympics\/articles\/team_usa_star_quinn_hughes_clutch_ot_game_winner_should_have_sweden_seeing_ghosts\/s1_13132_43487723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Days after\u00a0<\/a>26-year-old defenseman Quinn Hughes (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/teams\/minnesota_wild\/115\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota Wild<\/a>) scored the winning goal in a 2-1 victory over Team Sweden in the quarterfinal, his younger brother had his Olympic moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In overtime of the gold-medal game against Team Canada on Sunday, 24-year-old center Jack Hughes (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/teams\/new_jersey_devils\/92\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Jersey Devils<\/a>) nailed the winning goal on an assist from defenseman Zach Werenski (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/teams\/columbus_blue_jackets\/108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a>). The clutch shot secured a 2-1 win for Team USA and its first gold medal since the famed &#8220;Miracle on Ice&#8221; at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fitting that Jack and Quinn Hughes scored the two biggest shots for the Americans. The siblings played a key role in bringing the team together and helping it reach its goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/olympics\/articles\/brotherly_love_jack_and_quinn_hughes_help_deliver_team_usas_first_olympic_gold_medal_since_1980\/s1_13132_43502794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entering the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics, left wingers Brady and Matthew Tkachuk received the most attention for Team USA. However, it was another pair of brothers who became America&#8217;s biggest hockey heroes. Days after\u00a026-year-old defenseman Quinn Hughes (Minnesota Wild) scored the winning goal in a 2-1 victory over Team Sweden in the quarterfinal, his younger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-229941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}