{"id":610732,"date":"2026-02-23T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/610732\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:00:12","slug":"connor-hellebuycks-wife-gives-fans-inside-look-into-team-usa-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/610732\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor Hellebuyck’s wife gives fans inside look into Team USA celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Connor Hellebuyck and wife Andrea will certainly remember this moment.<\/p>\n

Shortly after Team USA sealed its 2-1 overtime win against Canada <\/a>in Sunday\u2019s gold medal hockey game at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, the Michigan-born goalie, 32, found his biggest supporter in the stands at the Milano Santagiulia Arena, as captured in an Instagram Story shared on Andrea\u2019s page.<\/p>\n

In the video, Andrea can be seen leaning against the railing to kiss Hellebuyck, who had a spectacular 41 saves on 42 shots<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Connor Hellebuyck kissed wife Andrea in the stands after the win against Canada on Feb. 22, 2026. @andrea_fancy\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Connor Hellebuyck denies Canada\u2019s Macklin Celebrini in the men\u2019s hockey gold medal game at the Olympics on Feb. 22, 2026. Andrzej Iwanczuk\/NurPhoto\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

\u201cOh my gosh, they\u2019re going to be talking about this performance for generations,\u201d teammate Matthew Tkachuk gushed of Hellebuyck\u2019s heroics. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an all-time performance from a superstar at his position. It\u2019s gonna go down as one of the best performances of all time \u2014 it has to. Right up there with Jimmy Craig, all the great United States goaltenders. In the NHL, whatever type of hockey, whatever goaltending performance you want to talk about, that\u2019s right up there. If we don\u2019t have him, we don\u2019t win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Goalie Connor Hellebuyck celebrates Team USA\u2019s gold medal win against Canada with wife Andrea. @andrea_fancy\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Hellebuyck, the Winnipeg Jets\u2019 netminder, denied Connor McDavid, Macklin Celebrini and Devon Toews in the gold-medal contest as center Jack Hughes put it away for the States less than two minutes into overtime.<\/p>\n

The celebrations continued outside the arena as Andrea triumphantly raised her hands, as a \u201cConnor Hellebuyck\u201d cheer erupted behind her, according to a video shared on her Instagram Story.<\/p>\n

Connor Hellebuyck smiles after winning his first Olympic gold medal. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Other posts featured the couple reuniting as they welcomed Hellebuyck\u2019s new piece of gold hardware into the family.<\/p>\n

A four-time NHL All-Star and a three-time Vezina Trophy winner, reigning NHL MVP Hellebuyck had been making his Olympic debut in this year\u2019s Winter Games.<\/p>\n

He and the Jets (22-26) will return to action Wednesday against the Cannucks.<\/p>\n

Through 36 games played, Hellebuyck has posted a 2.79 GAA [goals against average] this season with a .900 save percentage.<\/p>\n

Hellebuyck and Andrea have two children together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connor Hellebuyck and wife Andrea will certainly remember this moment. Shortly after Team USA sealed its 2-1 overtime…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":610733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3777,62,1486,67,132,68,21394,2391,292,87294,247509],"class_list":{"0":"post-610732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-olympics","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-sports-entertainment","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-usa-hockey","15":"tag-wags","16":"tag-winnipeg-jets","17":"tag-winter-olympics","18":"tag-winter-olympics-2026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116120782737334525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}