“He’s a great player,” Edmonton Oilers and Sweden defenseman Matthias Ekholm said. “I love his tenacity. I love his grit.

“The old cliche, the older guys sit around, ‘Hey guys, it goes by fast. You can’t waste those opportunities,’” Morrissey says. “And as a young guy it’s just impossible to have that perspective. But ...

Players expect the much-anticipated matchup between the countries to be measured by grit and will rather than pure skill.

Get ready for U.S. versus Canada, best-on-best, for the first time in 11 years. Luke Fox takes a look at how the Canadians are preparing for what could be a nasty game.

What else can you say about Sidney Crosby and what he has down for the sport in Canada? At age 37, he continues to show he is ...

The USA, Canada, Sweden, and Finland have all worn their fair share of timeless classics and absolute clunkers on the ice.

Thursday's game against Finland looked like it would be a nail-biter until Mike Sullivan united the Tkachuk brothers in the second period. What ensued was the type of chaos these two were born to ...