For the 2026 Winter Olympics at Milano Cortina, Italy, Matt Severance is picking the United States men's team to medal, a bet that returns -330 (risk $330 to win $100). Severance likes their chances to at least medal now that NHL players have been allowed to return to Olympic competition.

Canada has won nine Olympic gold medals in men’s ice hockey. Their first Olympic gold medal came in 1920 at the Antwerp Summer Olympics. The team dominated for three decades before the rise of the Soviet Union. Canada’s men’s Olympic hockey gold medals came in the following years:

New York Rangers bench boss Mike Sullivan is serving as head coach of Team USA. Sullivan, who also held the role for the 4 Nations Face-Off, coached the Pittsburgh Penguins to back-to-back Stanley Cup championships from 2015-16 to 2016-17.

Analysis and predictions for the best value plays in men's ice hockey gold medal prediction markets on Kalshi for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.

The Olympics men's hockey tournament will be run under International Ice Hockey Federation rules. Here is the format.

Brignone shrugged off difficult, foggy conditions to win her fourth career Olympic medal and become, at 35, the oldest female gold medalist in women’s Alpine skiing. Romane Miradoli of France took silver, and Cornelia Huetter of Austria got bronze.

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

Stolz received his gold for winning the men's 1000 meters at the Milan Cortina Games in an Olympic-record time thanks to a blistering closing stretch. Now Stolz will hope to add to his collection of trophies.