The United States closed out the preliminary round in Group A with another convincing win, this a 5-1 drubbing of Slovenia. Phil Kessel was the star with a natural hat trick and Joe Pavelski did his part assisting all three scores. Goalie Ryan Miller fell 17.6 seconds short of a shutout as Marcel Rodman finally squeaked one through late in the third....
News and notes as Team USA successfully turned the page on Saturdays emotional shootout victory over Russia with a 5-1 win over Slovenia on Sunday to clinch a bye into the quarterfinal round:...
Slovakia has an established track record of Olympic upsets. Click here to watch LIVE as Alex Ovechkin try to hold off Zdeno Chara and the Slovaks in Pool A action....
Click here to watch LIVE as the U.S. mens hockey team takes on Anze Kopitar and Slovenia for the first time ever in Olympic competition....
Maybe the Americans and Russians will meet again in these Olympics in a winner-take-all gold medal game. Maybe not....
s 42nd birthday, the Czech Republic fell to Switzerland on Saturday in a 1-0 shutout. The Czechs had their chances with 26 shots on goal, including several prime opportunities for Tomas Plekanec in the third period. Switzerland...
The shots fired between Team USA and Team Russia were not limited to the ice in their first meeting of these Winter Olympics. Following the Americans 3-2 shootout win, Russias 24-year-old defenseman Slava Voynov speculated that Los Angeles Kings goalie Jonathan Quick might have intentionally dislodged the net seconds before Fedor Tyutin scored what would have been the go-ahead goal for Russia with...
65 minutes and an eight-round shootout is what it took to determine Saturday morning's game between the United States and Russia, an Olympic battle that will certainly go down as an instant classic. Sensational goaltending by Jonathan Quick and Sergei Bobrovsky, the beautiful stickwork of Pavel Datsyuk and Patrick Kane, a shootout battle between T.J. Oshie and Ilya Kovalchuk: this game had it all....
Warning: If this is what the rest of the Olympic mens hockey tournament is going to be like, you might want to keep a stress ball by your side....
Click here to watch LIVE as rising hockey power Switzerland tries to vault itself past the Czech Republic in Pool C action....
Click here to watch LIVE as Henrik Lundqvist and Sweden try to prevent tournament newcomer Latvia from springing a major Pool C upset....
Marcus Johansson talks his selection to Team Sweden for the Winter Games in this exclusive sit-down with Mike Vogel of Monumental Network....
Marcus Johansson has also been inserted into the lineup....
The Capitals are hoping their current record is a mirage. Were not a bubble team, Capitals right wing Troy Brouwer said. Were a lot better hockey team than what we were showing. If the Capitals hope to get into the playoffs as one of the top three teams in the Metropolitan Division, theyll probably need to beat the Flyers in back-to-back games March 2 and 5....
Sweden escaped with a 1-0 win over Switzerland on Friday morning after a long battle of blocked shots and terrific goaltending by Henrik Lundqvist and Reto Berra. In the end it was a simple mistake by Berra that cost Switzerland the game, as Lundqvist saved a perfect 26 of 26 shots on goal....
After seeing his Capitals teammates score first for their countries on Thursday morning, perhaps Martin Erat took note. He notched the Czech Republic's first goal on Friday in a 4-2 win over Latvia. The Czechs are now 1-1 in Group C Olympic action....
s most intimidating arenas over the last few seasons, and he came out holding the Stanley Cup above his head. That's why U.S. coach Dan Bylsma is confident his goalie can handle a whole different level of pressure when the Americans take on the home team in Sochi. Quick will make his second start of the Olympics when the U.S. men's hockey team faces Russia on Saturday in the biggest game of the tournament's...
Before contributing to Sweden's 1-0 win over Switzerland on Friday morning,Capitals players Nicklas Backstrom and Marcus Johansson got a bit of a workout in on the way to the arena in Sochi. While the two could have taken a variety of different forms of transportation, they decided to ride bicycles....
There is still something very special about Saturday mornings 7:30 a.m. faceoff between the American mens Olympic hockey team and Russia. Both teams won their Olympic openers convincingly, with Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin scoring Russias first goal in a 5-2 win over Slovenia and Caps defenseman John Carlson netting the first goal in Team USAs 7-1 rout of Slovakia. Russia, absolutely, said Team USA...
Click here to watch a full replay of Saturday morning's epic clash between the U.S. mens hockey team and Team Russia, complete with DVR controls....