The 33-year-old played for Team USA in the 4 Nations Face-Off and scored a goal in the Rangers’ lopsided loss at Buffalo on Saturday, but was a late scratch after skating pregame before the Blueshirts won in Pittsburgh on Sunday.
The topic bubbled back to the surface this weekend after a pair of social media posts by the widely followed football accounts, @NFL_DovKleiman and @PHLEaglesNation, aggregated a Feb. 6 report from the U.S. Sun that it was a “massive no” for the Eagles to go visit the White House if they won the Super Bowl.