Olympics in Milan: Some more photos from the USA GOLD medal hockey game

Since sharing the last blog post from the men's gold medal hockey game, I have had a bunch compliments (thank you) and questions about the game and the photos. I didn't sleep a wink on the flight home last night, but was able to catch up on email, blog and social media comments. I also went through all the images from the last game and deleted the rejects. As part of that process, I also retouched some additional photos and made some different crops of a select few. 

I thought I would share with you a handful of new photos from the celebration of this awesome game.

A lot of people have asked me if I got a shot of Jack Hughes with his missing tooth. Someone even asked if I got an action photo of his tooth being knocked out (which I believe happened on the other side of the rink from me.) When going through the photos on the plane, I came across this one and laughed.

You can really see the damage to Jack's mouth, but I don't think he cared one bit.

I had a version of this photo in the last blog post, but felt that it would be stronger with a tighter crop.

Here is a photo of the Hughes brothers in a celebratory embrace. I couldn't decide whether to do a tight vertical crop on them, or leave it like this with Brady Tkachuk admiring the moment from the left side of the frame. I decided to leave it wide like this.

Here is another shot of Jack with his missing tooth (which had been cleaned up a bit for the medal ceremony).

I also decided to do another crop of this moment, with the boys including the Gaudreau kids. As I mentioned on the last blog post (and many of you have commented about as well), this was a really poignant moment at the game. Even though I had to crop out some of the athletes to the right of the frame, I like this medium crop a lot. I think that this Olympic-sized gesture deserved another image.

I retouched some additional photos of the guys singing the national anthem.

I saw Charlie McAvoy go to the edge of the stands and give a big hug to his kid, and really liked that moment.

(Photo credit: Heather Pollock)

And lastly, people have asked me if I was able to wear a gold medal and the answer is yes. One of the guys let me borrow his medal and I was able to get this photo. I was a special moment and a photo I will always cherish.

This is one of those times in my life that I will never forget. I was there and got to experience this firsthand! 

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