Like a lot of the members of the team that represented the USA at this year’s IIHF World Championship, Tage Thompson has had success at the U-18 and U-20 levels internationally, but gold had eluded him at this level.

Buffalo Sabres star Tage Thompson scored in overtime to lift the United States to a dramatic 1-0 victory over Switzerland in the IIHF World Championship gold medal game on Sunday in Stockholm. The goal gave the United States men’s hockey program its first World Championship since 1933.

Buffalo Sabres forward Tage Thompson scored the game's lone goal in overtime to put the USA back on top, winning the nation's first gold medal at the event since 1933, ending a 92-year drought. After the first 60 minutes of play yielded no goals,