VIDEO: Former Team USA & NHL Star TJ Oshie Recalls His Olympic Experience

Former Team USA and NHL star TJ Oshie recalls his Olympic experience before the Milan-Cortina Winter Games at the Team USA Media Summit in New York City. “I think just representing your country is such a high honor,” he said. “It was a goal of mine. I felt a little short in 2010, having been injured earlier in the year and, honestly, probably being a little too immature at the time. It was an amazing experience. It’s different in the NHL because a week before Patrick Keane was my arch-nemesis, and the next week he’s my teammate. And so it’s very different going in the middle of a season. It was an incredible honor, and I definitely appreciated being there. Having the NHL players back is awesome. I’ve been able to see this generation of American-born players come up and excel and win gold medals and win championships at the 2018s, the 2020s, and these kids got to, you know, maybe they got to see the Sochi Olympics, but they haven’t got to play in the Olympics themselves. And I think this young era of U.S. men’s hockey players is better than it’s ever been. I think we saw that at the Four Nations, and I’m so excited.”