USA women's hockey coach fuming about refereeing as warmed up over win over Italy

The United States women's hockey team has dominated every game in the 2026 Olympics.The coach does not understand that the team is fully satisfied.

The USA women's hockey team is dominating every game in these 2026 Olympics.

However, this does not mean that the coach of the team is completely satisfied with everything.

With things getting a little "spicy" according to forward Taylor Hayes, head coach John Wroblewski made it clear in the 6-0 win over Italy that he believes not all teams work the same way.

Things heated up in the second period when Hannah Bilka scored Team USA's sixth goal and was beaten by Italian netminder Gabriela Durante.

That led to the back of the net, especially when America's Abbey Murphy and Italy's Franziska Stocker were pushing and pulling.

Both minors were taken.

Wroblewski, panting toward the Italian bench amid the crumbs, expressed his frustration with the way the games played on the ice and said some teams were treated differently than others.

"They shouldn't be able to pull a player off the puck with any force other than when they're playing the puck," he said."And you just see it time and time again, a team that maybe isn't as deep or as skilled or as athletic as some players can stick around and blatantly break the rules. Whereas if those same players were playing with the same level of physicality and determination against the opposition, they'd be on the court every time."

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Heise, who contributed to the win, said the U.S. needs to play that style against the Italians.

"I don't want to say too much about it, but I think we have to play a certain style of golf and we're willing to do what we have to do to be successful," Heise said, according to ESPN.

Kerfuffle or not, the U.S.heading into Monday's semifinals with a gold medal feeling increasingly inevitable.