Team USA men’s hockey brought home its first gold medal since the “Miracle on Ice” Olympics in 1980, so let’s not beat around the bush.

From a member of the Canadian team assessing the game with “you be the judge of who the better team was,” to recent political events coloring the always-civil online discussion of a major world sporting event, reaction was swift across North America.

You might say it was almost as swift as Jack Hughes’ golden goal less than 2 minutes into OT this morning. If you were so inclined.

Let’s get to it.

Uh-oh. Big pre-game talk memorialized forever online … an unfortunate symptom of our modern technological times.

This is hard to argue with. In real time, it happened too fast, but the replay had everyone at Primanti Brothers in Harmar gasping.

Speaking of Primanti’s, it’s hard for a reporter to argue with a Sunday assignment that includes a capicola sandwich and watching Team USA win their first gold medal since before the reporter was born.

It would be remiss not to toss the golden goal on here.

Here we have a very funny critique of modern sports media from RetroPitt.

Here’s one that’s both charming and hilarious: A 10U hockey team watches the golden goal at the Lemieux Sports Complex … but a guy whose television feed was clearly about 2 seconds ahead comes blasting through celebrating the win before they see it.

Hockey writer Joshua Clipperton got quite a post-game quote from Team Canada’s Nathan MacKinnon.

OK, yes, technically, Canada has no SEC Championships. Seems like piling on, though.

The Big Man, diplomatic as always.

Let’s head back to the locker room!

This man got cooked by his own tweet getting tossed back at him.

Finally, for fans of the F/X comedy “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” it’s tough to see a U.S. national team win and not immediately start singing this gem.

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