{"id":13863,"date":"2026-02-15T11:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/13863\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T11:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:36:10","slug":"american-jeremy-swayman-allows-a-long-distance-goal-at-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/13863\/","title":{"rendered":"American Jeremy Swayman allows a long-distance goal at the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

MILAN (AP) \u2014 In net for the U.S. against Denmark<\/a> at the Milan Cortina Olympics<\/a> on Saturday night, Jeremy Swayman gave up a goal from 95 feet out that could get talked about for years to come. <\/p>\n

Nicholas B. Jensen sent a seemingly harmless shot toward Swayman from just past the center red line. Swayman moved his glove, and the puck went in over his right shoulder.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just the perfect height right between the stands and board level, and I truly lost it,\u201d Swayman said after the U.S. came back to win 6-3<\/a>. \u201cDefinitely one I went back, but at the same time, especially at this level, you\u2019ve got to stay even-keeled. It\u2019s one shot at a time and no matter how they go in, you\u2019ve got to step up and stop the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n

That goal gave Denmark the lead 11 minutes in. Jensen had scored three goals in 11 years of international play before he took advantage of Swayman\u2019s gaffe.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst I wanted to dump it, and then I was like, \u2018OK, I might as well just put it toward the net,\u2019\u201d Jensen said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to see with the bleachers, but no, I got lucky. And I appreciate he gave me that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if he\u2019d ever seen a goal like that, Denmark\u2019s Lars Eller said, \u201cIt\u2019s been a while.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the NBC broadcast, analyst and retired goalie Brian Boucher wondered if the dark color of the boards contributed to Swayman not being able to see where the shot came from. Swayman laughed it off, joking he\u2019s colorblind, so it doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something all of us always have to face and we play in different arenas every night in the NHL, so this is just one, another one, and it\u2019s a challenge that we have to embrace,\u201d Swayman said.<\/p>\n

The goal brought back memories of Belarus\u2019 Vladimir Kopat beating Sweden\u2019s Tommy Salo at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City on a similar long-distance shot from center ice. That goal came with 2:24 left in the quarterfinals and was responsible for one of the biggest upsets in international hockey history.<\/p>\n

Jack Eichel and Brady Tkachuk taking over the game ensured this wouldn\u2019t be a U.S. loss put on Swayman, and teammates weren\u2019t too worried about keeping the 27-year-old goalie\u2019s spirits up.<\/p>\n

\u201cFunky bounce \u2014 you just move on,\u201d said Eichel, who set up Tkachuk\u2019s first of two goals and scored one of his own. \u201cSway is a confident man. He knows nine times out of 10 \u2014 or 99 times out of 100 \u2014 he\u2019s going to have that. It\u2019s a crazy play. … We don\u2019t fault him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coach Mike Sullivan said he never considered pulling Swayman, who allowed two goals on seven shots in the first period. Sullivan insisted Connor Hellebuyck, who figures to start Sunday night against Germany, dressing as the backup did not factor into his thinking.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe in him,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cHe\u2019s a good goalie.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. coaching staff chose Swayman to start the second game against Denmark. Swayman was having perhaps the best NHL season of the three with the Boston Bruins and backstopped the U.S. to win<\/a> the world championships last spring, and defenseman Zach Werenski thinks those achievements outweigh one bad goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cStuff like that happens,\u201d Werenski said. \u201cI mean, the first one I score on him. It hits off my skate and goes in, and you just got to keep playing. … He\u2019s been in big situations before, so he knows how to handle that. He bounced back great. It didn\u2019t seem like there was any panic in his game, and I thought he played really well.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP Winter Olympics: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN (AP) \u2014 In net for the U.S. against Denmark at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Saturday night,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[5471,5473,1410,10197,10115,10612,9833,27,26,3776,10117,9829,5479,1368,10611,10610,5470,5474,10613,2374,135,132,10608,10609,10124],"class_list":["post-13863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympic-games","tag-2026-winter-olympics","tag-belarus","tag-boston-bruins","tag-brady-tkachuk","tag-brian-boucher","tag-connor-hellebuyck","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-hockey","tag-jack-eichel","tag-jeremy-swayman","tag-lars-eller","tag-massachusetts","tag-mike-sullivan","tag-nicholas-b-jensen","tag-olympic-games","tag-olympic-hockey","tag-salt-lake-city","tag-send-to-apple-news","tag-sports","tag-sweden","tag-tommy-salo","tag-vladimir-kopat","tag-zach-werenski"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}