In an echo of the Cold War, ice hockey has become central to international diplomacy, after it was mentioned by Vladimir ...

Play a little hockey. You know, as though nothing has happened. As though Ukrainians haven’t seen more than 12,600 civilians killed and 29,300 injured in their territory since Russia rolled ...

Raised in Moscow within the Soviet sports system by parents who were accomplished athletes, Alex Ovechkin was given every ...

but the best Russian players eventually leave Russia, to go play in the National Hockey League (NHL) in the US. The money is better, and the fame greater. Russian hockey has always been geopolitical.

Former NHL goaltender Dominik Hasek has condemned Donald Trump for allegedly using hockey in conversations with Vladimir Putin to whitewash global crimes. Hasek, a critic of Russia's actions in ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin revived the Cold War tradition of taking geopolitics onto the ice, suggesting in a call to ...

US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have this week been discussing how sport can be used to defuse tension with the two leaders open to holding ice hockey ...

For years, Wayne Gretzky's record of 894 career regular-season goals was widely thought to be untouchable. Now, the ...

TASS/. The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) expects that the question of Russia’s participation in the 2026 Olympic Games will be resolved in April, a source close to the federation ...

Vladimir Putin has pitched a US-Russia hockey series, suggesting that NHL and KHL players from both countries face off in special exhibition games. The Kremlin said Putin made the proposal during ...

Trump came out in support of Gretzky during a recent press conference, saying that despite their support in each other that the hockey legend wants Canada to stay a sovereign country.