Overview
- The United States beat Canada 2-1 in overtime on Feb. 22 to claim its first men's Olympic hockey gold in 46 years.
- Players carried Johnny Gaudreau’s No. 13 jersey and brought his children, Noa, 3, and Johnny Jr., 2, onto the ice for the official team photo, a gesture his widow Meredith praised as “the classiest thing.”
- USA Hockey invited the Gaudreau family shortly before the semifinals, and Comcast and NBC Olympics executives Brian Roberts and Gary Zenkel worked with USA Hockey to get them to Milan.
- In the ongoing criminal case, defense attorney Richard F. Klineburger now argues the accused driver’s blood-alcohol content was 0.075 based on plasma testing, below the 0.08 legal limit, versus prosecutors’ reported 0.087.
- The defense is seeking dismissal of charges or a new indictment in New Jersey, where the suspect has pleaded not guilty to counts including aggravated manslaughter and vehicular homicide and has not yet gone to trial.