MILAN (AP) — Before he became teammates in the NHL and won the Stanley Cup with Alex Ovechkin on the Washington Capitals, T.J. Oshie shined on the global stage with his shootout heroics that helped the U.

Here's a look at how the Russian Olympic men's hockey team could have looked if they were eligible to participate in 2026.

MILAN — Russian and Belarusian players under the age of 18 could re-enter the international hockey scene as soon as 2027-28 under new IOC recommendations, but the NHL has no current plans to bring Russia back into the fold in time for its 2028 World Cup.

The head of the international ice hockey federation, Luc Tardif, says he would like Russia and Belarus to return to international competition "as soon as possible".

For months, there were various projections on which NHL players would make their countries' rosters for the 2026 Olympic Games. Now those projections have turned into actual rosters, which reinforces just how quickly the tournament in the Milan-Cortina ...

Russia and Belarus were banned from international competition for the last four years as sanction for the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.