The Team USA men's hockey team felt Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau's spirits when they took home the gold at the 2026 Winter Olympics. "Johnny and Matty should be here and that is still the biggest loss that all of us at USA hockey, their families [and] our family, has gone through," Dylan Larkin told reporters after the Sunday, February 22, gold medal game. "Johnny [is] family first." Team USA beat Team Canada 2-1 in a sudden-death overtime win on Sunday, the American squad's first gold medal victory since 1980's famed "Miracle on Ice.