Earlier this morning, I went over to a friend’s house at 5 a.m. to watch Team Canada and Team USA battle it out for Olympic gold at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Games. It was probably one of the greatest hockey games I’ve ever watched, and unfortunately, the team I was cheering for, Team Canada, is leaving Italy with silver as opposed to gold. That said, there’s no denying that this was hockey being played at the highest possible level. There was so much talent on the ice,

So the Olympics are now done, and men’s hockey was terrific for the most part. It was the first time we got to see true best-on-best international play at the Olympics since 2014, and the tournament lived up to the hype. We saw so many great stories, like Juraj Slafkovsky and Team Slovakia coming out of nowhere and winning their group, Germany fielding one of their better teams to date, and the Finns once again showing they are one of the most underrated hockey nations out th