Updated list of NHLers participating (bolded players are those that have been confirmed within the last 10 days)    Canada Mathew Barzal (New York Islanders) Connor Brown (New Jersey Devils) Macklin Celebrini (San Jose Sharks) Dylan Cozens (Ottawa Senators) Dylan DeMelo (Winnipeg Jets) Jet Greaves (Columbus Blue Jackets) Denton Mateychuk (Columbus Blue Jackets) Ryan O'Reilly (Nashville Predators) Morgan Rielly (Toronto Maple Leafs) Mark Scheifele (Winnipeg Jets) John Tavares (Toronto Maple Leafs) Robert Thomas (St. Louis Blues) Gabriel Vilardi (Winnipeg Jets)    Czechia Jaroslav Chmelař (New York Rangers) Filip Hronek (Vancouver Canucks) Adam Klapka (Calgary Flames)    Finland Justus Annunen (Nashville Predators) Aleksander Barkov (Florida Panthers) Ville Heinola (Winnipeg Jets) Anton Lundell (Florida Panthers) Olli Määttä (Calgary Flames) Nikolas Matinpalo (Ottawa Senators) Aatu Räty (Vancouver Canucks) Teuvo Teräväinen (Chicago Blackhawks) Urho Vaakanainen (New York Rangers)    Germany Philipp Grubauer (Seattle Kraken) Moritz Seider (Detroit Red Wings)    Slovakia Martin Pospíšil (Calgary Flames) Adam Sýkora (New York Rangers)    Sweden Oliver Ekman-Larsson (Toronto Maple Leafs) Anton Frondell (Chicago Blackhawks) Emil Heineman (New York Islanders) Nils Höglander (Vancouver Canucks) Simon Holmström (New York Islanders) Albert Johansson (Detroit Red Wings) Linus Karlsson (Vancouver Canucks) Liam Öhgren (Vancouver Canucks) Arvid Söderblom (Chicago Blackhawks) Oskar Sundqvist (St. Louis Blues)    Switzerland Nico Hischier (New Jersey Devils) Timo Meier (New Jersey Devils) Nino Niederreiter (Winnipeg Jets) Jonas Siegenthaler (New Jersey Devils) Pius Suter (St. Louis Blues)    United States Brock Boeser (Vancouver Canucks) Devin Cooley (Calgary Flames) James Hagens (Boston Bruins) Cole Hutson (Washington Capitals) Wyatt Kaiser (Chicago Blackhawks) Sam Lafferty (Chicago Blackhawks) Ryan Leonard (Washington Capitals) Charlie Lindgren (Washington Capitals) Oliver Moore (Chicago Blackhawks) Mathieu Olivier (Columbus Blue Jackets)

Niklas Edin, curling 🇸🇪 8 World titles, 8 european titles, one olympic gold, silver and bronze in skip position

https://www.ledauphine.com/jeux-olympiques/2026/05/03/programme-des-sports-des-jeux-olympiques-d-hiver-le-trail-et-le-gravel-recales   Reports Synchronized Skating, freeriding (Ski and snowboard) and ski mountaineering are the sports that will be added

From Kyodo News:   The IOC, meanwhile, is also dropping its potential plan to move some of its Summer Games sports to the 2030 French Alps Winter Games, a source familiar with the matter said

I think it's still too early to start alarming, especially in matches that make little difference for China.    But... will another president of the Chinese federation resign? 

The decline in dominance of the Chinese men is obvious when looking at the brackets in the major tournaments...the women, of course, are another story.   (LSD and WCQ are amazing, don't get me wrong....but the other men have really risen to the occasion.)

Well, achieved all he can achieve, and after a certain age the aches and pains getting out of bed in the morning become too much.  

Oh fuck, about to cry now 

Stefania Constantini and her team out of Italy are heading their separate ways   Very confused to be honest, I know they had a bad season but I didn't expect to this happening... there's no real other options for any of them, unless they're focusing on Rock League/mixed doubles.   Italy has no other top female team, and the juniors aren't looking promising either, the last time they qualified a team to a World Juniors (not as host) was in 2014. Doubt the Italian Federation would let Constantini step away from the four-player game, she's too much of a talent, my guess is she'll "be forced" to go with Mariani (I mean her and Mosaner don't like each other much), still I have no idea who else they'd pick up given it's all five of them going their separate ways. Maybe Mathis will go back to representing Switzerland??

Niklas Edin, curling, anncouned his retirement just now.    Thank you for all happy memories.    https://www.expressen.se/sport/niklas-edin-lagger-av-tufft-och-laskigt-beslut/     https://www.instagram.com/p/DX49Xk5kUfx/?igsh=MWVoYXJsNDU3dW1keQ==