Sean McIndoo

I'm sure there's political statesmanship reasons why maybe that made sense.

Um, why is he at the hockey game?

I guess he's a hockey fan.

Why is he in the locker room celebrating?

I mean, I double checked.

He was not on the team.

He did not play a single shift in that gold medal game.

So why he is there.

And, and when I say he's there in the locker room, he's not just there to, you know, pop in and say, Hey, good job, boy.

Shake a couple of hands and get out.

He is, he is chugging beers.

He is, he is wearing somebody's gold.

Somebody has put their gold medal around his neck and he is wearing it.

And that is always going to set a certain percentage of the audience on edge.

What is this guy going to say?

How is this all going to be perceived?

But as part of offering his congratulations to Team USA... I have seen hockey goalies have slightly worse games.

He makes a comment about inviting them to the White House, which again is fairly standard, and then says something along the lines of, We're going to have to bring the woman's team, you do know that.

And this has been referred to in a few places as a case of him making a joke.

It's certainly a joke-shaped statement, but a lot of people, for obvious reasons –