Ice Hockey

2/4/2026 |  As 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics near, USA Hockey’s CFO is playing the long game with AI (CNBC Sports)

• With the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics set to begin this week, the U.S. ice hockey national teams will be back on one of the world’s biggest stages, with NHL players returning to the competition for the first time since 2014.
• Few people get a better seat to all of that than USA Hockey CFO Kelly Mahncke.
• The sport’s national governing body operates as a nonprofit with 1.2 million members made of players, coaches, and officials. 

2/4/2026 |  Stadium Series Sets NHL Viewership Record on Football-Free Weekend (Front Office Sports) Sunday’s NHL Stadium Series in Tampa Bay was an all-out spectacle: pirates and treasure maps, plus the entrance of the Bruins in colonial patriots garb and the Lightning in full football uniforms. 
The over-the-top production—which included a shootout winner for the Lightning and a rare goalie fight—paid dividends for ESPN by becoming the most-watched NHL regular season game on cable.

2/3/2026 |  Canada and the U.S. face a deeper field in women's hockey at the Olympics (NBC Sports) MILAN — Since its introduction to the Olympics, women’s ice hockey has been one of the more predictable events, with Canada and the U.S. routinely renewing their rivalry in the final, but their dominance could come under threat and all thanks to North America’s own professional league.

2/2/2026 |  3 seasons in, PWHL set to enjoy international coming-out party during Milan Cortina Games (Associated Press (AP)) The Professional Women’s Hockey League was but a pipe dream in February 2022 when Kendall Coyne Schofield emphatically declared the urgency needed to address a fractured sport with unrealized potential.
“We need to push for visibility,” Coyne Schofield said then, choking back tears after the United States’ 3-2 gold-medal loss to Canada at the Beijing Winter Games. “We need to continue to fight for women’s hockey because (the status quo) is not good enough. It can’t end after the Olympic Games.”

2/2/2026 |  Olympics ice hockey proving the top attraction as ticket sales approach 1.2 million (NBC Sports) MILAN — Almost 1.2 million tickets have been sold for the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics and the Paralympics, local organisers said on Monday, with ice hockey topping the list.