In typical fashion, the women's hockey team declines invite to the White House.

Doe anyone really buy that this was a scheduling conflict?

So you can take off weeks to participate in the Olympics, but you cannot find a day to go visit the White House? Sure. Take a look at the commemorative t-shirt. It isn't even red white and blue. Rather it is gold (which I suppose is suppose to place the emphasis on the medal color). No flag, no nothing to signify any practical patriotism.

But this is the world we live in. The men will be happy to go to the SOTU address tonight and then off to the White House. They decided not to party in NYC, but rather in Miami. They seem to wear the flag like no other team I can recall (might have to go back to the Miracle on Ice to see something similar). But those women are likely all secret Karen's who probably would rather be out blowing whistles at ICE than visiting the White House. We are divided these days, by sex as much as by anything else.

By the way... if you want to read something about how much some people are upset that the mens USA team won and that they embraced the concept of going to the SOTU and White House... take a look at this:

Don't let them f**cking take this from you

Hockey is so much more than a game. It’s a fact we all know from lived experience. If you’ve ever watched your team win at home, caught a double-overtime playoff game on FaceTime with your friends, or cried as medals were placed around your favourite players’ necks, you know. The emotions around this sport run so high and sink so deep. The game takes us out of our bodies sometimes; it goes beyond the players on the ice and beyond us. Hockey can be this collective feeling in the air, a communal triumph or defeat, a chance to come together as one to celebrate and mourn.

In the wake of Team USA’s gold medal win at the 2026 Winter Olympics, men’s ice hockey discourse has trended towards the latter. There is a somber cloud around us now. The way we talk about this game may never be the same after this week. A bubble has been popped, so to speak, as NHL fans watch the men they’ve come to support and root for pop bottles with FBI Director Kash Patel and trade jokes about the women’s game with U.S. President Donald Trump. Now, as the roster likely heads to Washington, D.C. to attend the State of the Union on Tuesday night, we must contend with the unavoidable.

This is just the start... it get's worse from here. But hey, the game of Hockey will never be the same because the men's team did not reject Kash or Donald. I guess TDS can take away your favorite sport if you are no careful.