While Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift may not have followed Jason and Kylie Kelce to Italy to watch the men's hockey gold medal game, they made sure to be up bright and early to watch the puck drop.
On Wednesday's edition of their New Heights podcast, the Kelce brothers spoke about Team USA's big win over Canada. Travis recapped how he and Swift watched the game from the start and stayed on the edge of their seats all the way to the end, starting early in the morning.
“Me and Tay watched the entire game and it’s just so (expletive) epic, man,” Travis Kelce said. “From the first drop of the puck, that game was non-stop action and just had me at the edge of my seat at 8:10 in the morning.”
Kelce then declared that the game was even more meaningful since the game was happening the same day as their father Ed's birthday. He called the gold medal win "fitting for the big guy" as he celebrated his big day.
“What more fitting for the big guy on his birthday,” Travis said.
Gold for Team USA
The men’s ice hockey gold medal game at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina was a dramatic, historic showdown between Team USA and Team Canada, two of the sport’s fiercest rivals.
After a tightly contested 60 minutes that ended tied 1–1 — with Matt Boldy scoring first for the U.S. and Cale Makar answering for Canada — the game moved into sudden-death 3-on-3 overtime. With goaltender Connor Hellebuyck standing tall with 41 saves to keep the Americans alive under intense pressure, Jack Hughes delivered the decisive moment, scoring 1:41 into overtime on a pass from Zach Werenski to lift the United States to a 2–1 victory and secure the nation’s first Olympic men’s hockey gold medal since the iconic “Miracle on Ice”” in 1980.
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The triumph resonated deeply across the hockey world, not only for ending a 46-year gold medal drought but also because NHL players were back in Olympic competition for the first time since 2014, making this one of the strongest fields in recent history.
Canada, chasing its 10th Olympic title, was outshot and pressured for much of the game but rallied late and forced overtime, only to see the U.S. finish the tournament unbeaten. The win marked a rare sweep of both men’s and women’s hockey golds for the United States at the same Games and sparked widespread celebration among players, fans, and commentators alike.