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Brandon Hagel Takes One Last Jab at Matthew Tkachuk and Team USA After Canada's Victory

Originally posted on Habs Fanatics | By Elias Adaime | Last updated Feb 21, 2025 11:01 AM ET

As you know, several American players, including Matthew Tkachuk, spoke loudly and taunted Canada publicly before last night's final.

There was the following statement, which generated a lot of reactions.

'Maybe their team doesn't like each other then if they don't have group chats..
Our team doesn't care about anything that they say.'

- Matthew Tkachuk fired back at Brandon Hagel's for his comments about team USA's group chat.

Tkachuk was responding to a statement from Brandon Hagel, who noted that the Canadian players weren't discussing plans to drop the gloves in a group chat, unlike Team USA, who did before last Saturday's game.

Brandon Hagel responds to Matthew Tkachuk after the win

And after Canada's win, Hagel got his revenge in the best possible way and officially created a groupchat with all the Canadian players, a group chat titled 'The Champions.'

Boom!

That's a nice little jab to put the feisty Tkachuk in his place.

See the photo shared by Hagel:

I love it!

I think this shows that the Canadian players spoke with their performance last night (and obviously after the win), unlike some Americans, who spent much of their energy putting on a public spectacle.

In the end, Team Canada came out with the big victory.

Hagel wasn't the only one who had a little message for Matthew Tkachuk, Brad Marchand also took a jab at Tkachuk live on TV after Canada's win.

How beautiful to see!

This article first appeared on Habs Fanatics and was syndicated with permission.

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