American women's hockey gold medalist talks coach's emotional moment as team won gold at Olympics

John Wroblewski was flooded with emotion erstwhile Team USA women’s hockey prima Megan Keller deked astir a Canadian defender and scored the game-winning extremity to bring the Americans a golden medal connected Thursday.

The NBC broadcast caught tears pouring down Wroblewski’s look arsenic his squad celebrated an unthinkable infinitesimal for the athletics and the state astatine the aforesaid time.

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Head manager John Wroblewski of Team United States Megan Keller #5 of Team United States observe the triumph aft the Women's Ice Hockey Gold Medal Game betwixt USA and Canada (2-1 OT) connected time thirteen of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena connected Feb. 19, 2026 successful Milan, Italy. (EyesWideOpen/Getty Images)

American Taylor Heise, who assisted connected Keller’s goal, told Fox News Digital successful a caller interrogation it was a full-circle infinitesimal for her coach.

"I saw the video yesterday (Friday), and it benignant of conscionable depicts him beauteous well," she said. "He’s an affectional guy, but helium coached a batch of men’s teams and this is benignant of his archetypal women’s gig and we’ve taken him successful with grace these past 4 years and I deliberation he’s done wonders for this radical and decidedly an grant for maine due to the fact that the past Olympics, I got cut. He’s the archetypal manager that gave maine that accidental back. He knows I’m precise grateful for that. I archer him that each day.

AMERICAN WOMEN'S HOCKEY GOLD MEDALIST TAYLOR HEISE OPENS UP ON WHAT IT MEANS TO PLAY FOR TEAM USA

United States caput manager John Wroblewski and Laila Edwards (10) observe aft beating Canada successful the women's crystal hockey golden medal crippled astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Milan, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026.  (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

"We hadn’t been capable to truly chat with him after. We had a batch of media and everything, but we’re grateful for him. He’s a feline that deserves the satellite due to the fact that helium believed successful each of america and gave each these young girls a accidental to amusement up and I deliberation helium picked the close 23 girls to beryllium here."

Wroblewski played successful the ECHL and the American Hockey League (AHL) and coached for the Team USA Developmental Program and the AHL’s Ontario Reign earlier taking implicit the Olympic women’s squad successful 2022.

Heise, who volition proceed to play successful the Professional Women’s Hockey League for the Minnesota Frost, is present thing that lone a fewer tin go – a golden medalist.

United States' Grace Zumwinkle, left, and Taylor Heise observe aft triumph ceremonial for women's crystal hockey astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Milan, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026.  (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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"It’s awesome," she said. "It’s decidedly a extremity of excavation that I’ve had for a precise agelong clip and to present person it travel true, it was decidedly 1 of the past things connected my database I wanted to cheque off. It’s conscionable an unbelievable acquisition and the squad that I got to bash it with is highly peculiar and 1 of the astir talented teams I’ve ever seen."

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