North Texas grandmother watches grandsons help US Hockey team win Olympic Gold

Jack Hughes lost a front tooth, but gained an Olympic gold medal, along with his brother Quinn, on Sunday when the U.S. beat Canada 2-1 in overtime.

When Jack Hughes scored the winning goal in overtime to help the U.S. Men’s Hockey Team win gold for the first time since the ‘Miracle on Ice’ in 1980, his grandmother in North Dallas beamed with pride.

“It's amazing! Just amazing,” Penny Weinberg said. “And that Jack got it with his teeth knocked out! Um, hopefully he’ll get 'em fixed!

Hughes lost a front tooth, but gained an Olympic gold medal, along with his brother Quinn, on Sunday when the U.S. beat Canada 2-1 in overtime.

Weinberg knows something about the perils of hockey. One of the bedrooms in her North Dallas home has hockey trophies on the shelves that belong to her daughter, Ellen Weinberg-Hughes.

“She wanted to play, and she did,” Weinberg said. “So the rest is history!”

A young Ellen Weinberg was the subject of an NBC 5/KXAS report decades ago when she was the only girl on an all-boys peewee hockey team. At the time, the young hockey player said she wanted to be a professional hockey player one day.

“Cute,” Weinberg said, laughing as she watched the archive news report about her daughter.

Ellen Weinberg-Hughes went on to help the U.S. National Women’s Hockey Team win Silver at the 1992 Women’s World Championships. She also served as a consultant for this year’s gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic Women’s Hockey Team.

Three of her sons play in the NHL, and now two of them, Quinn and Jack, are Olympic gold medalists. Weinberg-Hughes' joy over the Olympic win was palpable as she and her husband jumped and hugged in the stands.

“I couldn’t be more proud of them as hockey players,” Weinberg said of her grandsons. “But I’m just as proud of them being people.”