While Ovechkin has become of the NHL all-time greats, his hockey career began when he was growing up in Russia.

A Russian official responsible for mobilizing soldiers for the war in Ukraine has died after collapsing during a friendly ice ...

Svechnikov, the Carolina Hurricanes forward, would love a front row seat to watch his fellow countryman score his 895th NHL ...

Russia remains a rogue player on the international sporting stage. There’s no reason to start playing games with its athletes ...

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

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

From diplomatic deadlock to face-offs, 2025 is blurring the lines between politics and play, as Donald Trump's US sanctions begin to thaw and ...

Amid the somewhat murky details emerging from US President Donald Trump’s and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s call on ...

The International Ice Hockey Federation will decide in April whether to maintain or lift restrictions on the sport for the upcoming Olympic Games. The organisation stresses that this is a matter ...

The call, which also touched on serious topics such as the war in Ukraine, saw Trump expressing support for Putin's idea to arrange hockey matches featuring players from the National Hockey League ...

The recent phone call between Trump and Putin illuminated their shared vision for a series of hockey matches that would showcase elite players from the United States and Russia. The Kremlin's official ...