There were some bruised feelings a year ago, when the four nations selected unilaterally by the NHL in a Russia-less return to international best-on-best hockey did not include the likes of Czechia, which had won IIHF World Championship the previous summer.

MacKinnon is not in Milan to soak up the Olympic experience. He is focused on one thing: leading Canada to men's ice hockey gold.

It’s been 106 years since “ice hockey,” so called to differentiate it from the game that’s played on grass, made its Olympic debut, the Winnipeg Falcons winning the historic first gold medal at Antwerp, Belgium in 1920, representing Canada.

MILAN (AP) — Forget the “Greenland Derby” talk. It was just team spirit, hard work and plenty of heart. That's how Denmark's players say they took the fight to the United States in hockey at the Winter Olympics.