With the men’s tournament about to begin, it is the perfect time to look back at the full history of Olympic hockey.

For Laila Edwards, this year’s Winter Olympics is about far more than sport, and that’s something she’s getting comfortable with.

There are 146 NHL players competing in the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics. From Sidney Crosby to the Tkachuk brothers, see the full list of NHL stars in the Winter Games.

The Winter Olympics are a bit of an enigma to most sports fans in the United States. The average person has seen hockey, the understand figure skating, and we get enough extreme sports through osmosis that the snowboard half pipe makes sense — but a lot of the events are more Euro-centric.

• Happening now: The opening ceremony for the 2026 Milan Cortina Games is now underway. The weather has been a touch gray and foggy, and the streets are a mix of puddles and slush, so walking is a challenge, especially as cars wind through the narrow streets.

WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark is rooting for Team USA in a new video ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympics.

The small town of Warroad, Minnesota, has had an outsized impact on the history of hockey in the U.S. The inclusion of Brock Nelson on the men's Olympic team this year makes eight players from Warroad to go to the Winter Games.

Finland's women's hockey team is not sure if it will have enough players to face Canada because of a stomach virus depleting its roster.