Jackson Lacombe: Olympic hockey aftermath, record TV audiences and revisited athlete letters
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U. S. men's hockey arrival in South Florida and immediate plans
The U. S. men's hockey team arrived in South Florida on Monday after beating Canada in an Olympic final game played in Milan, Italy over the weekend. After the flight landed at Miami International Airport and was making its way to the gate, the team received a water salute. Following the arrival, the team will have only a limited amount of time to rest because their Olympics celebration will continue in Miami on Monday night.
Following their Olympic gold-medal win, the team will be celebrating at E11EVEN Miami. The club has been ranked No. 1 nightclub in the United States and No. 6 globally, and it has a history of hosting championship celebrations: it has welcomed the Florida Panthers after back-to-back Stanley Cup victories, Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza, the Indiana Hoosiers after their College Football National Championship, and F1 champions Lando Norris and Max Verstappen.
How the final unfolded: the winning play and injuries
Jack Hughes scored the overtime winner 1: 41 into 3-on-3 overtime off a pass from Zach Werenski, triggering a wild on-ice celebration while Canada’s entire team watched from the bench. Hughes lost some teeth during the game after taking a high-stick. In remarks included in the material, Hughes said he couldn't believe the outcome, described the matchup as an unbelievable USA-Canada game with many great players, and called the U. S. an underdog to Canada that nonetheless won in a contest that could have gone either way.
Television and streaming audiences: scale and records
The Olympic men's hockey gold-medal game between the U. S. and Canada drew 20. 7 million viewers across multiple broadcast and streaming platforms; that figure was released on Tuesday. The average live audience across primary platforms was 18. 6 million viewers between 8: 15 a. m. and 11: 00 a. m. ET. The broadcast peaked at 26 million viewers as Jack Hughes' overtime winner lifted the U. S. over Canada for the nation's first men's Olympic hockey gold medal since the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" team, and the telecast ranked as the second-most watched hockey game in the history of the primary U. S. broadcaster's Olympic hockey coverage after a 2010 men's gold-medal game that drew 27. 6 million viewers.
The U. S. women's gold-medal game — a 2-1 overtime victory over Canada — also drew substantial audiences. That game averaged 5. 3 million viewers and peaked at 7. 7 million viewers in overtime before Megan Keller's winning goal. It was the most-watched women's hockey game on record. The women's victory was the program's third Olympic gold — all three against Canada — and the first since the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang.
One day of the Games produced heavy overall viewership: a single Thursday averaged about 26. 7 million viewers, the largest Winter Games weekday audience since 2014. Across the full Winter Games, Team USA set a national record with 12 gold medals, and an average of 23. 5 million viewers in the United States tuned in to watch that run. All 15 days of the Games topped 20 million viewers.
Revisiting letters: Jack Hughes and Alysa Liu's earlier visions
Material revisiting letters written in 2019 shows that Jack Hughes and Alysa Liu had imagined futures they hoped to reach; both stood atop the Olympic podium as gold medalists at the 2026 Winter Games. In 2019 Hughes was described as a projected top NHL draft pick, and Alysa Liu was identified as a teenage figure skating prodigy. Hughes delivered the golden goal in overtime to secure Team USA's men's hockey title, and Liu captured Olympic gold.
The letters recall a night when Hughes and Cole Caufield broke the National Team Development Program's all-time points and goal-scoring records on the same play: that assist was Hughes' 190th point on Cole's 105th goal, and the equipment manager had to saw the puck in half so both could have a piece. The letters describe winters spent on outdoor rinks with brothers Quinn and Luke, and they name players who played in that program before them: Patrick Kane, Auston Matthews and Jack Eichel. Hughes had written about wanting individual awards and All-Star appearances but said his driving obsession was winning the Stanley Cup. A passage about when he was 12 and landed a triple jump is incomplete in the provided material and is unclear in the provided context.
Looking ahead
The immediate next step documented in the material is the team's Miami celebration on Monday night at E11EVEN Miami and the limited rest window after the team's arrival. Other follow-up details beyond the arrival, the celebration plans, and the historical viewership and letter retrospectives are unclear in the provided context and may evolve as further information becomes available.
