MILAN -- The Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 men’s hockey tournament begins Wednesday when the 12 nations compete in three groups. Group A consists of Canada, Czechia, France and Switzerland. Finland, Italy, Sweden and Slovakia will play in Group B. Group C features Denmark, Germany, Latvia and the United States.

The 26-year-old forward will represent Slovakia at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina; the lone Calgary Flames player selected for the tournament. Pospisil will trade in the Flames’ red and yellow for Slovakia’s blue, red, and white as he prepares for his first Olympic appearance.

A former NHL star is ready to lead his country in Milan. On Monday, the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation announced that forward Tomas Tatar will be the captain of the men’s ice hockey team at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

The 2026 Olympic men's hockey tournament officially begins on Wednesday, Feb. 11, with the preliminary rounds, and it's shaping up to be an intense run of games between 12 teams. What makes the 2026 Olympics stand of is that it brings the return of NHL players,

Slovakia first competed as an independent country at the 1994 Winter Games and finished in the top six three times in its first five attempts. But after a pair of 11th-place finishes in 2014 and 2018,

The 2023 second-rounder will be Team Slovakia’s second-youngest player on the roster after St. Louis Blues forward Dalibor Dvorsky. After two seasons in the juniors and as many seasons in the NCAA with Minnesota-Duluth, Adam Gajan was thus selected to the Slovak roster, and he will be a bit of a dark horse on the team.

Minnesota Duluth netminder Adam Gajan has been the glue for the Bulldogs this season, as UMD finds itself No. in the

The opening ceremony of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics is complete at Milan's San Siro Stadium. Featuring simultaneous ceremonies in the mountain towns of Cortina, Livigno and Predazzo, the day's festivities included performances from Mariah Carey,

NHL stars have landed in Milan for the 2026 Winter Olympics. This marks the league's return after a 12-year break. Players from top nations like Canada, USA, Sweden, and Finland are preparing for the tournament.