Russia relations at a historic low point, hockey could become a soft diplomatic tool to ease hard foreign policy tensions.

CESKE BUDEJOVICE, Czech Republic (AP) — Finland defeated Switzerland 2-1 Monday for its second victory at the women’s ice hockey world championship. Ronja Savolainen scored a short-handed goal midway ...

The spectacle surrounding Alex Ovechkin's recent record-breaking goal recalls an era where sport accompanied great power détente ...

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

The "unconditional withdrawal" of Russian forces from the territory of Ukraine is a key precondition to amend or lift sanctions, the European Commission has said in reply to the Kremlin's demand.

With playoffs ramping up in leagues across the globe, Ryan Dixon is using this week’s power rankings to see how a notable prospect or two have fared for all NHL 32 clubs.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian prosecutors asked a judge on Thursday to put billionaire Vadim Moshkovich, founder of the country's top agriculture company Rusagro, in pre-trial detention on suspicion ...

NATO member Finland has accused Russia of weaponising migration by encouraging migrants from third countries to cross their shared border, an assertion the Kremlin has repeatedly denied.

Ovechkin embraced hockey and showed he was good at it. When marketing executive Steven Warshaw went to Moscow in the 1990s to work for the Pittsburgh Penguins after they invested in a team there, he ...

In an echo of the Cold War, ice hockey has become central to international ... the United States and Canada over trade. The US and Russian presidents' phone call on March 18 focused on Russian ...

In an echo of the Cold War, ice hockey has become central to international diplomacy, after it was mentioned by Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump during talks on Ukraine, and during tensions between ...

Whether ice hockey can help to "humanise" modern-day Russia more than half a century later remains to be seen. First, games would have to actually take place between the Americans and Russians and ...