Over the recent All-Star break, the NHL officially announced that NHL players will be competing in both the 2026 and 2030 Winter Olympic games. The NHL Players Association and the league themselves have come to an agreement with the IIHF that will see the players from the best hockey league in the world finally competing
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On Feb. 2, the NHL announced that not only will the league be participating in the 2026 and 2030 Olympics, but it will host a 4 Nations Face-Off in 2025, featuring Canada, the United States, Sweden and Finland that will essentially function as a truncated World Cup of Hockey. Everyone knows that superstars like Connor
When the NHL announced that they were not going to participate in the 2018 Olympics, fans and players were understandably upset. They had been robbed of a best-on-best tournament; no league-created event, from the All-Star Game to the ironically named World Cup of Hockey, ever came close to the prestige and competitiveness of the Olympics.
Not only do we get to talk about the NHL this week, but we get to talk about men’s and women’s Olympic hockey as the tournament is now in the books. With the fluctuating temperatures and flash snow storms on the east coast, it sounds like a good time to head out west. Weekly Lost
After falling in the shootout to the ROC, Sweden will face Slovakia in the Bronze Medal game at Beijing 2022. If Sweden is victorious, they will capture their fifth-ever Bronze Medal, and first since 1988. They have already defefated Slovakia once this tournament, but will need a strong effort once again if they want to
For the first time in eight years, Team Sweden has a chance to medal in the Olympics. The road to gold, though, is still a very long one. Related: 2022 Guide to the Men’s Olympic Tournament Wednesday’s 2-0 win over Team Canada cemented the Swedes’ chances of playing for their first medal since taking silver
On Monday night, Team Germany failed to re-capture their magic from a 2018 Olympic run that saw them win the silver medal. Despite a late-game push to even the score, Germany fell short, losing 4-0 to Slovakia. Entering the game, Slovakia and Germany held identical group stage records at 1-2-0, although Slovakia had a slight
The 2022 Olympic Winter Games have officially begun and are off to a tremendous start. The women’s hockey schedule has already kicked off and, to no surprise, has teams like Canada and the United States going undefeated in their opening games, while Japan has stunned hockey fans with victories over Sweden and Denmark. On the
Many fans hoped that we would finally get to see Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid play together on Team Canada for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Unfortunately, with the NHL no longer sending its players to China, that won’t be the case. However, Canada still has gold medal aspirations and a deep pool of players
The 2022 Beijing Olympics, much like the current NHL season, has many questions surrounding it. Hockey fans all over the world would love nothing more than to see NHL players back in the Olympics after not playing in 2018. Many current players have been vocal on this as well, making it very clear they want
The current NHL season is in full swing, and the Coyotes have been left behind, it seems, as the team currently sits in last place with a record of 0-10-1. While many have written this season off, the Coyotes are still very much hungry to win and prove people wrong. One of those people is
In today’s NHL rumors rundown, the Los Angeles Kings might be getting good news after what looked like a serious injury to defenseman Drew Doughty. Meanwhile, the status on a Vladimir Tarasenko trade seems to change weekly. How long will he be staying with the St. Louis Blues? The Ottawa Senators seemed to have dismissed
The sound of blades grinding the ice of players skating at high speeds, blistering 100+ mph slap shots, beautiful end-to-end rushes with tape-to-tape passes, and sprawling kick saves by goaltenders are major components of the great game of bandy. Most people: “Wait what? You mean hockey.” No, I mean bandy. Bandy played at the Asian
The NHL has announced that it has reached an agreement to allow its players to participate in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The San Jose Sharks have several candidates to represent the team for their home countries at the games. Here are the locks, possible participants, and longshots to appear in next year’s Olympics.
Before the 1987 Canada Cup, the hockey world knew Mario Lemieux as an incredible talent with a ton of potential. Drafted in 1984, Lemieux and the Penguins would have to wait six years to see legitimate playoff success. A big part of Lemieux and the Penguins’ future success can be traced back to the 1987
With NHL players heading to the 2022 Winter Olympics, Team USA figures to be one of the best. Beijing presents a huge opportunity for USA Hockey and the NHL. Auston Matthews is primed to be Team USA’s top player at the next Olympic Games. (Jess Starr/The Hockey Writers) The NHL clearly views China as an
If all goes as they hope, NHL players will make their return to Olympic competition next February at the Winter Games in Beijing. While not yet official, the NHL included an Olympic break in its recently released 2021-22 schedule. NHL players were last at the Winter Games in 2014, having not participated in 2018 when
In the 2004 film, “Miracle,” Kurt Russell, who plays Herb Brooks, talked about the best moment of the 1980 Olympics experience, and he refers to the team gathering together on the podium saying, “Well it was here. The sight of twenty young men with such differing backgrounds, now standing as one. Young men willing to