The National Hockey League in the United States is again permitting its players to represent their native countries in the Olympics.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

He also built a sports center in Landover,Maryland for this team and the hockey team he owned called the Washington Capitals.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

Some of the winter sports played at the Olympics are internationally known, such as ice hockey.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

The first men's hockey game will be between the United States and Switzerland on February sixteenth.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

Some say that for Canadians hockey is closer to a religion than a sport.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

Experts say the men's hockey event will be one of the most competitive ever.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

For generations of Canadians, ice hockey has been an important part of their culture.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

This is when the final game of the men's hockey competition takes place.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

Ice skating and the game of ice hockey are also popular winter sports.

VOA: special.2010.01.29

And the Pittsburgh Penguins won the Stanley Cup in the National Hockey League.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

In the National Hockey League, the Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup.

VOA: special.2011.06.18

The first event included trainers from Washington's professional football,baseball,basketball and hockey teams.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

He brought professional basketball and hockey to his hometown of Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

They competed in running, swimming and hockey.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Hockey fans have the Blackhawks.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

The Pittsburgh Penguins won the National Hockey League title by beating perennial favorites the Detroit Red Wings in seven games.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

The win is the Canadians third consecutive women's ice hockey victory, with two of them coming over the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Ron Wilson of the Toronto Maple Leafs is the head coach of the 2010 U.S.Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

The U.S.Men's Ice Hockey Team begins its Vancouver Olympics campaign against Switzerland on the opening day of the tournament - February 16.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

On Saturday,Canada broke the record for the biggest margin of victory in Olympic women's ice hockey with an 18-0 trouncing of Slovakia.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

the 2003 production that pitted him against the hockey mask-wearing slasher from the "Friday the 13th" franchise,Jason Voorhees).

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

The last time the USA won a gold medal in women's ice hockey was 1998 in Nagano,Japan.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

And we are now going to a country that probably rightly considers itself the home of hockey,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

"I think this is going to be the greatest hockey tournament in the history of the world,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.12