00:00American Idol golden boy Hughes gets heroes welcome to return to Jersey oh
00:05absolutely Jack Hughes got the athletes version of a heroes welcome at the rock
00:10last night and it was absolutely awesome check it out I'm so proud and I'm so
00:14happy that the men's and women's USA hockey teams brought gold medals back to
00:19the United States of America you guys are making me emotional but I'm so proud to
00:25represent the New Jersey Devils organization
00:31and I'm so so proud to represent the great state of New Jersey so we just want
00:38to thank you guys for all the love and the support we feel it thank you what
00:44y'all didn't see before that video was the USA chance in the standing ovation and
00:50our New York Post sports producer an avid Devils fan Nick Federico was in
00:54attendance you can actually see him in the video he said the energy and the
00:57atmosphere at the rock was an absolute ultimate experience last night me
01:02personally I liked how Jack Hughes grabbed his team USA teammate Taze
01:07Thompson who ironically scored the Sabres first goal of the night and they took
01:12that lap fellas take a bow live it up enjoy every single moment because now
01:18unfortunately you're gone back from being Olympic heroes to playing in our fourth
01:22best league in America hopefully you guys winning the gold and all of the
01:27distractions in the locker room that we were forced to talk about after the
01:31win keeps the casual fan watching for the rest of the NHL season I say that to
01:36say this remember last year it was the storylines of the Canada versus USA beef
01:41in the four nations face-off that made us all watch I was glued to the TV screen and to
01:47add to the hype we even had hockey insiders like PK Subban just out there
01:52slamming the Pro Bowl and NBA all-star game for clout to show how manly hockey
01:57was and how the players actually care all of that only for them to go back to the
02:03states in the NHL and all the higher the casuals wore off no one in hockey really
02:09made our back page again or no one was really talked about outside of at Austin
02:13Matthews until the playoffs but for you guys this team this team that made
02:19history I'm hoping this year is different this wasn't just some best-on-best
02:24tournament this was the Olympics we dream about this type of thing stay up to
02:29date with Team USA Jack Hughes and the tri-state area hockey teams by heading over
02:34to NewYorkPost.com slash sports
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