{"id":67177,"date":"2026-02-24T17:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/us-mens-hockey-team-visit-white-house-as-some-players-with-minnesota-ties-stay-away\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:55:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:55:26","slug":"us-mens-hockey-team-visit-white-house-as-some-players-with-minnesota-ties-stay-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/us-mens-hockey-team-visit-white-house-as-some-players-with-minnesota-ties-stay-away\/","title":{"rendered":"US men\u2019s hockey team visit White House as some players with Minnesota ties stay away"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Donald Trump invited team after Olympic gold<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Women\u2019s team chose to skip event<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The victorious US Olympic men\u2019s ice hockey team visited the White House on Tuesday, although there were several notable absences.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/23\/trump-usa-hockey-call-state-of-union\">invited the team<\/a> to celebrate in Washington DC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/22\/usa-canada-hockey-olympic-gold-medal-game-jack-hughes\">after they beat Canada<\/a> in a dramatic Olympic final on Sunday. He also invited the US women\u2019s team, who declined citing \u201ctiming and previously scheduled academic and professional commitments\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/24\/us-hockey-visit-white-house-trump-minnesota\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump invited team after Olympic gold Women\u2019s team chose to skip event The victorious US Olympic men\u2019s ice hockey team visited the White House on Tuesday, although there were several notable absences. Donald Trump invited the team to celebrate in Washington DC after they beat Canada in a dramatic Olympic final on Sunday. He &#8230; <a title=\"US men\u2019s hockey team visit White House as some players with Minnesota ties stay away\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/us-mens-hockey-team-visit-white-house-as-some-players-with-minnesota-ties-stay-away\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US men\u2019s hockey team visit White House as some players with Minnesota ties stay away\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}