Followers cheer on Group USA at bar the place hockey participant’s mom works – NBC Boston

As Group USA routed Latvia 5-1 in males’s hockey on the Olympics Thursday, native followers cheered on at a watch social gathering at a bar in Mansfield, Massachusetts.

The area is well-represented on the ice at Milan Cortina, with 10 males and 10 ladies on the hockey crew having New England ties.

Amongst these gamers is ahead Matt Boldy, a local of Millis who performs for the Minnesota Wild. He had loads of native love among the many followers watching on the Catman Cafe in Mansfield, the place his mom, Jen, is a bartender.

“I have been coming right here for a very long time, and I have been listening to her tales about her son, Matty Boldy, since he is been knee-high to a minnow,” mentioned Timothy Reagan.

Ashlyn Sullivan and Jordan Corridor break down the U.S. males’s hockey crew’s 5-1 win over Latvia.

“It is so thrilling for Jen and her son, Matty, and the entire neighborhood,” mentioned Wendy Kirley. “Jen’s labored right here for thus lengthy, and it is simply actually thrilling.”

“They had been often known as the home with the skating rink of their entrance yard,” mentioned Don Lavalle. “I’ve watched him skate for years, you understand, 9, 10, 11 years outdated, and I mentioned a to Jen one time, ‘Jen, there’s our meal ticket. That is our meal ticket proper there.’ And he was as slightly child, however because it all turned out, that is what occurred.”

Boldy performed at Boston Faculty earlier than reaching the NHL.

The Milan Cortina Olympics are the primary to characteristic NHL gamers in 12 years.

Two of these gamers — Ottawa Senators ahead Brady Tkachuk, who performed for Boston College, and Buffalo Sabres ahead Tage Thompson, who performed for the College of Connecticut — scored in Thursday’s sport.

Brady Tkachuck bought a cross from his brother Matthew and scored the primary aim for Group USA of their sport in opposition to Latvia.