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• GB FUTURES U16 TEAM NAMED FOR TRIP TO ESTONIA

Ice Hockey UK (IHUK), England Ice Hockey (EIH) and Scottish Ice Hockey (SIH) are pleased to announce the final roster for the under-16s (2010-born) team, selected to represent Great Britain Futures at the upcoming Four Nations Tournament in Tallinn, Estonia. The tournament, which runs from 25th to 31st August 2025, will see Great Britain face […] The post GB FUTURES U16 TEAM NAMED FOR TRIP T...2025
• Why the Four Nations Face-Off Was Such a Success
Every hockey fan is currently all in on the Stanley Cup finals. It doesn’t matter what team you support – or where you live – the Stanley Cup finals is the pinnacle of the sport and probably the one trophy … Continue reading → The post Why the Four Nations Face-Off Was Such a Success first appeared on Pro Hockey News....2025
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• Morning Flurries: Colorado represented well on preliminary Olympic rosters

Winslow Townson-Imagn Images Four Colorado Avalanche will be extra busy in February. Milano Cortina 2026 is fast approaching as NHL players are gearing up to participate in the Olympics for the first time in over a decade. Leading up the the February festivities, each of the 12 nations expected to vie for gold in the men’s ice hockey tournament have just revealed six members of their rost...2025
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• 2026 NBA All-Star Game To Be USA Vs. World Format

Adam Silver confirmed that the 2026 NBA All-Star Game will be the USA versus the World. The game will be in the daytime and air on NBC after an extended run on TNT. The game will also be played during the ongoing Winter Olympics in February. "What better time to feature some form of USA against the world?" Silver said. While Silver said he is not yet sure what the format will be for the game, the ...2025
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• 92 Years Later

The last time that Americans received gold medals at the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship, the year was 1933, the tournament was in Prague, and the Americans won in overtime over Canada by a 2-1 score. Today marks another big day in American hockey history as Team USA has finally found its way back to the top of the podium thanks to their 1-0 overtime win over the Swiss in Stockholm. While the t...2025
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• Canada eliminated by Denmark in stunning upset at World Championship

Photo by EyesWideOpen/Getty Images It was Denmark’s second victory over Canada in history. A sequel to the Miracle on Ice has been penciled in for 2025. Nick Olesen scored with 49 seconds left in the game to help Denmark deliver one of the most monumental upsets in hockey history when they defeated Canada 2-1 in the quarterfinals of the 2025 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship. A win for ...2025
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• Morning Flurries: Colorado represented well on preliminary Olympic rosters
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• Guest Post: Family, Loss, and Hockey
Editor’s Note: former Cannon writer and longtime commenter Dan Flashes reached out to ask if he could share a piece he wrote about his family and the 2024-25 season. This is something different than we usually do here but I think you’ll appreciate it. In case you haven’t noticed (“And judging by the attendance, you haven’t,” —Harry Doyle), I haven’t been commenting here for a bit. ...2025
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• Catching up

IIHF U18 World Championships Photo credit Steven Ellis/Daily Faceoff With rising sophomore Sascha Boumedienne as a major contributor, Sweden won the silver medal at the World U18s in Frisco, Texas. The rising sophomore defenseman received the Directorate Award as the tournament's top blueliner, was named Sweden's best player in the gold medal game loss to Canada and was selected to the...2025
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• The Last One In

You were warned, and the NHL Guardian Project images are continuing today as we have our sixteenth and final team who has clinched an NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs berth. The Montreal Canadiens secured the second wild card spot tonight, leaving the Columbus Blue Jackets on the outside of the playoff picture. While Montreal may have surprised a lot of people as they flirted with a playoff spot for a whi...2025
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• Friday Feels: Sammy Time

Marc DesRosiers-Imagn Images The Feels is back with a lot of love for Sam Malinski Wow, been a while since we got a Friday Feels on the site, hasn’t it? That’s a direct quote from outgoing managing editor Evan Liu, subtly telling me he’s disappointed. And hey, I’m truly sorry I’ve been MIA on the writing front - but life is busy, and I give my all to the podcast. So please forgive. I have...2025
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs Toronto Maple Leafs (5:00 p.m.)

Photo by Mark Blinch/NHLI via Getty Images It’s a Colorado Avalanche gameday! Following a strong performance in an emotional overtime victory over Mikko Rantanen and the Dallas Stars Sunday afternoon, the Colorado Avalanche will embark on their final Eastern Conference road trip of the season, which will take them through Eastern Canada. The Avs will face the Maple Leafs in Toronto to star...2025
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• Preview: Avs look to keep rolling into Ontario as road trip begins against Maple Leafs

Photo by Andrew Lahodynskyj/NHLI via Getty Images The Avs enter this trip with a nine-game point streak. Following a strong performance in an emotional overtime victory over Mikko Rantanen and the Dallas Stars Sunday afternoon, the Colorado Avalanche will embark on their final Eastern Conference road trip of the season, which will take them through Eastern Canada. The Avs will face the Map...2025
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• What to Watch This Week: March 17-23
The Four Nations Faceoff, Stadium Series, and Trade Deadline have all come and gone, and somehow the Columbus Blue Jackets are in the thick of a playoff race with under 15 games to go. While the Jackets need to keep their focus on winning their games (emphasis added), the 5th Line can start scoreboard watching for the other seven(!) teams battling for the third spot in the Metro and the two Easter...2025
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• Mile High Pollster: Fans won’t be satisfied if Colorado is done dealing

Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images A series of polls have been issued to Avs fans and the results are in! We are just a couple of days from NHL Trade Deadline day, and this is the time of the year when things in the NHL really start to heat up. Everyone has their own opinion or vision of what their favorite team should or shouldn't do, as more than 3⁄4 of the season has come and gone. I...2025
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• Recap: Avalanche top Penguins at Ball Arena

Photo by Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images It wasn’t pretty, but the Avs did what they needed to do in the end. The Colorado Avalanche made a statement Tuesday at Ball Arena: “Never give up.” Casey Mittelstadt put the Avs ahead on the power play with 4:09 remaining, Artturi Lehkonen scored twice, including an empty-netter, Nathan MacKinnon extended his home point ...2025
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• Preview: Avalanche look to ramp it up as NHL returns from Four Nations break

Photo by John Russell/NHLI via Getty Images The Avs return to action to visit the division rival Nashville Predators. After the remarkable success of the Four Nations Faceoff, which captivated the sports world in North America for the last 10 days, the National Hockey League is back in action Saturday, with 14 games occurring across the league. The Colorado Avalanche return to play with s...2025
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• Saturday Stats: What will the Avs do during the Four Nations break?

Perry Nelson-Imagn Images Two weeks off? I’m about to get so much done! It’s here, it’s really happening - the Four Nations break is upon us and I’m about to have so much more time for activities. I’m finally going to build that plant stand my girlfriend has been bugging me about since pre-season! She’s going to be so happy! Obviously we know what Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, Devon Toews...2025
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"While it’s absolutely fair to acknowledge that this has been a tumultuous year for Rantanen, traded to Carolina, then playing in Canada in the Four Nations, then traded to Dallas — that’s also making entirely too many excuses for him."

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"Great Britain have confirmed their squad to take part in the Women’s Four Nations in Esbjerg next month."

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"Sources: NHL aims for 4-nation tourney in 2025"

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"in a tournament final since the 2014 Four Nations Cup and hasn’t won the world title since 2012."

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"Saskatoon to host Four Nations Cup international women’s hockey tournament"

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"U.S. downs Canada to win Four Nations Cup championship"

2016
"Seattle Sounders’ Victor Mansaray called up to U.S. U-20s for Four Nations tournament"

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"– Portland Thorns FC forward Christine Sinclair has been selected to the Canada Women’s National Team roster for the upcoming Four Nations Cup in China, it was announced today."

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"Canada downs U.S. at Four Nations Cup in first women’s hockey game since Sochi"

• Morning Flurries: Colorado represented well on preliminary Olympic rosters
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• Canada eliminated by Denmark in stunning upset at World Championship
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• 2024-25 Player Review: Sean Kuraly was Sean Kuraly
I’ll be honest here. I don’t have a lot to say about Sean Kuraly. He was signed here in 2021 to be the team’s fourth line center. It’s the last year of that contract, and he was a serviceable fourth line center for all 82 games. Coach Dean Evason and his teammates speak highly of his leadership qualities, but he didn’t do much to impress me, and by season’s end ...2025
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• Mikko Rantanen is a PROBLEM for Dallas ... and not in the good way

Photo by Sam Hodde/Getty Images Something has to change for the Stars. Is there something in the water when it comes to Dallas sports? The Cowboys are in a constant state of existential crisis, the Mavericks traded Luka Doncic in exchange for irrelevancy, and now the city’s only playoff bright spot, the Stars, are struggling to work out what’s wrong with their ace player Mikko Rantanen. R...2025
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• Playoff Preview: The Puck Stoppers

Photo by Michael Martin/NHLI via Getty Images What happens in net is always important. What happens in net seems to be the crux of any playoff series and the expectation should be no different in this first round match between the Colorado Avalanche and Dallas Stars. Especially as this is a clash of two strong teams worthy of the Conference Finals it will be up to the goaltenders to make ...2025
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• Game Day #72: Time to get Familiar with Ottawa
Saturday, March 29th, 2025 – 7:00 PM ETCanadian Tire Centre, OttawaTV: CITY, SN1, TVAS, FDSNOH – Radio: 97.1FM Columbus Blue Jackets (33-29-9, 75 points, 4th Metropolitan, 8th East)atOttawa Senators (38-28-5, 78 points, 4th Atlantic, 7th East) Player to Watch Dylan Cozens At the trade deadline the Senators flipped an oft injured middle 6 center for a struggling middle 6 center in Buffa...2025
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• Friday Feels: Sammy Time
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs Toronto Maple Leafs (5:00 p.m.)
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• Preview: Avs look to keep rolling into Ontario as road trip begins against Maple Leafs
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• Canada eliminated by Denmark in stunning upset at World Championship
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• Mikko Rantanen is a PROBLEM for Dallas ... and not in the good way
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• The Last One In
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• First Opponent: The Blue

Back in 2011 for the NHL All-Star Game, the NHL worked with Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee to create 30 NHL Guardians superheroes who had a variety of superpowers. The NHL Guardian Project was a collaboration between the NHL, comics legend Stan Lee, and Guardian Media Entertainment to create a superhero for each NHL franchise at the time who would go on adventures across several multimedia platform...2025
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• Recap: Avalanche top Penguins at Ball Arena
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• Four Nations Face-off Has Grown Hockey in America

The NHL has momentum nationally in the United States with new fans turning to the game thanks to the Four Nations Face-off....2025
• Four Nations Face-off Has Grown Hockey in America

The NHL has momentum nationally in the United States with new fans turning to the game thanks to the Four Nations Face-off....2025
• Recap: Avs sluggish in loss to St. Louis

Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images Not much to write home about when it comes to that performance. It was another disappointing night for the Colorado Avalanche out of the gate. After scoring the opening goal, Colorado gave up three unanswered goals in a 3-1 loss to the St. Louis Blues. They end this quick two-game road trip with back-to-back games with losses. The Avalanche still sit i...2025
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• Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs Nashville Predators (4:00 p.m.)

Photo by John Russell/NHLI via Getty Images It’s finally a Colorado Avalanche game day! We're back! It's the first of a back-to-back starting away to the Nashville Predators! #GoAvsGo pic.twitter.com/9dPqZx7w9f— Mile High Hockey (@MileHighHockey) February 22, 2025 After the remarkable success of the Four Nations Faceoff, which captivated the sports world in North America for the last...2025
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• Thorns FC's Christine Sinclair named to Canada Women's National Team roster for Four Nations Cup
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• Sources: NHL aims for 4-nation tourney in 2025

An NHL-supported international hockey tournament scheduled for 2025 would feature just four nations: the United States, Canada, Sweden and Finland, sources told ESPN's Greg Wyshynski....2023
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• Mikko Rantanen is a PROBLEM for Dallas ... and not in the good way
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• U.S. downs Canada to win Four Nations Cup championship
American women have now won championship three times in a row....2017
• GB SQUAD CONFIRMED FOR WOMEN’S FOUR NATIONS

Great Britain have confirmed their squad to take part in the Women’s Four Nations in Esbjerg next month. GB will go head-to-head with hosts Denmark, as well as Italy and Poland, in the four-team tournament from 8th to 10th February. Matches will be held at the Granly Arena and the tournament forms part of GB’s preparations......2024
• Canada downs U.S. at Four Nations Cup in first women’s hockey game since Sochi
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• GB TO TAKE PART IN WOMEN’S FOUR NATIONS NEXT MONTH
Great Britain will take part in the Women’s Four Nations in Esbjerg next month. GB will go head-to-head with hosts Denmark as well as Italy and Poland at the Granly Arena from 8th to 10th February. The tournament forms part of preparations for the Women’s World Championship Division I Group B in Latvia, which gets......2024
• Canada’s women’s hockey team shut out by U.S. at Four Nations Cup
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• The Calgary Flames have placed defenceman Tyson Barrie on waivers

As the Calgary Flames returned to practice the last few days, a few defencemen were notably absent. One, Rasmus Andersson, is expected, as he just finished up his duties with Sweden at the Four Nations. The other, Tyson Barrie, prompted some speculation the last few days. That speculation was answered at noon when it was … The post The Calgary Flames have placed defenceman Tyson Barrie on wa...2025
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• The 4 Nations Face-Off sets the stage for the 2026 Winter Olympics

Photo by Andre Ringuette/4NFO/World Cup of Hockey via Getty Images Hockey at the Winter Olympics in 2026 will be electric, and the 4 Nations Face-Off has proven that! As this NHL season approached the pause set aside for the 4 Nations Face-Off, many fans were skeptical or not all that interested heading into the tournament. If you look at some of the comments on our 4 Nations previews, you...2025
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• USA vs. Canada Continues To Be the Talk of the Sports World

The Four Nations Face-off continued on Monday in Boston, but the sports world is still buzzing from Saturday and the Team USA vs. Canada Game....2025
• USA vs. Canada Continues To Be the Talk of the Sports World

The Four Nations Face-off continued on Monday in Boston, but the sports world is still buzzing from Saturday and the Team USA vs. Canada Game....2025