Charlie McAvoy gave Bruins fans an odd offseason story, and Marco Sturm's top defenseman wasn't even near puck drop.

The issue had nothing to do with the blue line, special teams, or a roster move.

It came from a Mother's Day post that USA Hockey pushed out on Sunday.

The post used a photo of McAvoy celebrating in the stands after Team USA's gold-medal win over Canada at the Winter Olympics in Italy.

That should've been a safe play.

It wasn't.

USA Hockey shared the image as part of its Mother's Day content, but the woman beside McAvoy was not his mother.

It was his sister, Holly McAvoy.

That's where the story turned from harmless tribute to awkward social-media cleanup.

Holly stepped into the comments and made the correction herself.

The photo showed Charlie McAvoy leaning in during the celebration, smiling shoulder-to-shoulder with family after one of the biggest wins of his international career.

A simple post turned into a public correction for Charlie McAvoy's family

Once Holly McAvoy pointed it out, the post quickly became a talking point for all the wrong reasons.

USA Hockey had the right player, the right moment, and the wrong family member.

That kind of miss always travels fast, especially with a player as visible as McAvoy.

His family has long been part of the conversation around his career, both in Boston and on national broadcasts.

McAvoy's circle is already well known in hockey.

He's married into another prominent hockey family, and one of his sisters works in pro hockey as well, so this wasn't some mystery photo from deep in the archives.

That's why the mistake landed the way it did.

Fans don't expect a major hockey account to confuse a sister for a mom in a post built around Mother's Day.

In the end, no lineup changed and no one got scratched.

But it still became one of those offseason moments that sticks because it was avoidable and because the correction came from inside McAvoy's own family.

For McAvoy, it was a reminder that even in May, when games are done and the locker room is quiet, his name can still end up in the middle of a hockey headline.