Deep State Gets To Olympic Hockey Gold Champ Who Backs Down On Battle Over Goal-Winning Puck

The U.S. Men’s Hockey Team player who had complained that NHL officials stole the “golden puck” from him is suddenly skating backwards.

Golden boy Jack Hughes says he now can see the wisdom in his winning puck staying in a glass display case at the NHL Hall of Fame museum.

“It’s an honor the puck is there,” he told reporters Thursday. “It’s like the most special place in hockey. I’m honored that it’s there.”

Only a day before, Hughes said the fact that the NHL had taken his winning puck was “bullshit***.”

He had said he wanted to give his father the priceless puck as a memento of his historic gold-winning shot at the Milan Olympics.

But after a day of contemplation he changed his tune, saying he can see why the Hall of Fame wants to keep it.

Judging from a curt comment Thursday from a top NHL official, Hughes really had no choice one way or the other.

“Unfortunately it was never Jack’s puck to own,” vice president of the resource center and curator for the Hockey Hall of Fame Philip Pritchard said. “It’s been donated to us now. For every artifact that’s been donated, we have a paper trail and signed paperwork of where it’s come from.”

The U S. hockey team won gold for the first time in 46 years so the puck is extra special to Hughes.

Not since the 1980 “Miracle On Ice” had the American team won the top Olympics prize.