US men's hockey stars dish on immense American pride after winning Olympic gold

Team USA men’s hockey golden medalists Dylan Larkin and Zach Werenski opened up astir wherever their American pridefulness came from arsenic they celebrated their Olympic accomplishment.

Larkin and Werenski appeared connected Fox News Channel’s "Fox & Friends" connected Tuesday morning, hours aft celebrating their golden medal triumph against Canada crossed Miami. The 2 opened up connected what it meant to them to correspond the Stars and Stripes.

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Zach Werenski #8 and Dylan Larkin #21 of Team United States observe winning the golden medals aft the team's 2-1 overtime triumph successful the Men's Gold Medal lucifer betwixt Canada and the United States connected time 16 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Milan Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena connected February 22, 2026, successful Milan, Italy. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

"I deliberation a batch of america played astatine the U.S. National Team Development Program … When we were there, you get to enactment the jersey connected each time for 2 years, earlier you’re drafted. We spell done training. We’re not subject by immoderate means but they enactment america done immoderate training, and they truly instill successful you immoderate pride," Larkin said. "Once you spell done that, you instrumentality the jersey disconnected … and each clip you instrumentality it off, for maine astatine least, I don’t cognize the adjacent clip I’m going to enactment it on.

"So, each clip I get the accidental to correspond the United States of America, I enactment that jersey on, I’m each in. I emotion doing it, and it’s conscionable thing special. I could spell connected each time astir however large our state is. Just being location and seeing our friends and family, it’s conscionable special."

Auston Matthews (34) of the United States, Zach Werenski (8) of the United States and Matthew Tkachuk (19) of the United States clasp up the jersey of John Gaudreau aft defeating Canada successful the men's crystal hockey golden medal crippled during the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games astatine Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena connected Feb. 22, 2026. (Amber Searls/Imagn Images)

Werenski was asked whether playing successful different countries made him much arrogant to beryllium an American.

"I deliberation you’re spot on. I retrieve my archetypal World Championships with him was successful Slovakia. I’ve been to Denmark, I’ve been to Czech (Republic) – these are each large countries, and you play successful them, and it’s a ton of fun. The Olympics were successful Italy, which is an unbelievable country," helium said. "You get reminded of however large the United States of America is erstwhile you get backmost here. And we emotion representing our country, we emotion wearing those colors.

"Like Dylan said, we larn astir it from a young age. We’re allowed to unrecorded retired our imagination due to the fact that of the subject – the radical that serve, the archetypal responders. It’s conscionable an unthinkable country. It’s the champion state successful the world, and we emotion wearing these colors, and you decidedly get an appreciation for it erstwhile you spell overseas and play."

The United States celebrates aft winning the men's crystal hockey golden medal crippled during the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games astatine Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena. (James Lang/Imagn Images)

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The U.S. men’s hockey squad is expected to question to Washington, D.C., to beryllium astatine President Donald Trump’s State of the Union code connected Tuesday night.

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