BEIJING — Marie-Philip Poulin scored twice and Canada reclaimed its place atop the women's hockey world with a 3-2 win over the defending champion U.S. at the Beijing Olympics. Goalie Ann-Renee Desbiens stopped 38 shots and Sarah Nurse had a goal and ...

As the No. 1 team in the IIHF rankings, Team USA is the favorite to win its first Olympic gold medal since 2018.

The gold-medal winning United States women's Olympic hockey team has been on top of the world for almost two weeks, and Monday they were on top of a famous New York City landmark. All 23 members of the team, which defeated Canada in a dramatic shootout at ...

Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson skated slowly back and forth toward the net, showing forehand, then leaning quickly to the left to fake a backhand that pulled Canadian goalie Shannon Szabados out of the crease. On the sport's biggest stage, against the ...

Get to know the basics of Olympic hockey — learn how the men’s and women’s tournaments are structured, how games are scored and decided, what rules differ from the NHL, and who the top medal contenders are for Milan Cortina 2026.

(AP) – When the NHL instituted the shootout in 2005 to decide games instead of ties, it came after the American Hockey League experimented with it the previous season. It was a new wrinkle in North America, but the shootout had been a big part of ...

Canada's "Captain Clutch" Marie-Philip Poulin heads into her fifth Winter Olympics as a rare blend of longevity, leadership and big-moment brilliance, qualities that have made her the face of women's ice hockey for more than a decade.