NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The bragging rights belong to Joe Pavelski, Justin Braun, Kevin Labanc, Joakim Ryan, Paul Martin and Danny O’Regan.
With Team USA’s shootout win over Canada in the gold medal game of women’s hockey at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the Americans in the Sharks dressing room received an opportunity to gloat in Nashville Thursday morning.
“We get bragging rights,” Braun said, admitting that he isn’t planning to rub it in with his Canadian defensive partner Marc-Edouard Vlasic. “He’s won his own gold medal at the Olympics (2014), so you can’t really say too much there.