Long Island native Charlie McAvoy represents at Winter Olympics – NBC New York

A Long Island native is trying to assist lead Team USA to a gold medal that has remained elusive to them for 46 years.

The males’s hockey group gained its first three video games in Milan Cortina, and is hoping to make it 4 in a row within the quarterfinal towards Sweden.

Making his debut for the US within the 2026 Winter Olympics is Charlie McAvoy, a 28-year-old from Long Beach. The defenseman has performed for the Boston Bruins ever since he was drafted out of Boston University in 2016, however his household says it was his upbringing on Long Island that helped lead him to this second.

“You know, like so many parents think their kid is better than he is,” stated Kevin McAvoy, Charlie’s uncle. “But when you hear other parents telling you how good your nephew is, then, you know, he got the real deal.”

McAvoy Plumbing, the household’s 100-year-old enterprise, has been buzzing these days over the hockey star they name “one of their own.”

“He always had that work ethic. And he came back, every year you could see it. You could see the growth in it,” stated Kevin McAvoy.

That hometown pleasure has additionally been on full show on the city’s rec heart, the place a younger Charlie McAvoy discovered to play hockey as a child who grew up a Rangers fan.

Charlie McAvoy discusses his childhood taking part in hockey and serving to his dad out together with his plumbing enterprise.

Charlie McAvoy discusses how his father impressed him to present again to the group.

McAvoy — who obtained engaged the final time he went to Italy — is having fun with success and life, one which his household says was formed rising up in Nassau County. They’re hoping he can use what he discovered at house to steer the group to gold, one thing the US hasn’t earned in males’s hockey because the “Miracle on Ice” group in 1980.

“Somebody from the 1980 Olympics said, they said, ‘When we score, it’s we scored, not I scored,’ you know?” stated Kevin McAvoy. “It’s that like dedicated…That mentality. And I think these guys have to kind of hopefully have that same mentality.”

His hometown subsequent has a chance to observe McAvoy play on Wednesday at 3:10 pm, when Team USA takes on Sweden within the males’s hockey quarterfinals. The motion may be seen on NBC New York, and streamed on Peacock or NBCOlympics.com.