LAS VEGAS — Jaccob Slavin’s first day back at practice in Carolina after the Olympics didn’t go quite as planned.The U.S. and Carolina Hurricanes defenseman’s idea was to put the gold medal game in the rearview mirror by making a peace gesture to Hurricanes teammate and Canada forward Seth Jarvis.“I saw him. I tried to give him a hug. And he was like, ‘Not yet. Not yet. Give me one more day.’ I was like, ‘Alright. That’s fine,'” Slavin recalled with a laugh this week. “So next day, we hugged it out. All in good fun, though. There was no poking fun or anything like that.”Not sure “good fun” is how Jarvis remembers it.“He came in wearing his gold medal into the dressing room, and it set off a lot of emotions for me,” Jarvis said with a chuckle. “So I needed more time.”Slavin does admit it, by the way. Entering Carolina’s first team meeting after the Olympic break, the gold medal was hanging from his neck.Ouch.Jack Eichel’s face turned serious when asked this week if he enjoyed rubbing it in or making jokes with the three Golden Knights teammates — Mitch Marner, Mark Stone and Shea Theodore — who were on the losing side of Team USA’s overtime win in Milan over Team Canada.“I didn’t really, no,” Eichel said. “I have so much respect for those guys. You know, they’re three of my best buddies, too. We spend a lot of time away from (the rink) together. Our wives are friends — they’re really close. If it were the other way around, and they had won, I would assume they would have acted the same way.“It was a great game, obviously. I was really fortunate to be on the right side of it, but if the roles were reversed, I’m sure they would show me the same sort of respect. We’re all competitors and we all want to win.”Marner appreciates how Eichel handled it. They all tried to park the Olympic gold medal game and move on.“I think maybe it’s a respect thing,” Marner said this week. “That game was probably the biggest game of our careers — obviously, one that it sucks to lose. But one of us were going to be losers, and I think whoever did win would realize that we weren’t going to push it over the other guy’s head and make jokes about it. Everyone’s been great at that.”“It’s definitely different,’’ Theodore said Thursday about walking back into the Knights dressing room a few days after losing to Eichel and Noah Hanifin in the gold medal game. “I think it would have been the same way had that game ended differently. We’re all respectful guys. It was a big game. Sometimes you get some bounces, and sometimes you don’t. Good on them for winning. Obviously, we wished it had gone the other way.