Hockey headlines for February 20, 2026

Friday, February 20, 2026

USA women’s hockey wins gold medal over Canada in Olympic overtime heart-stopper (New York Post)
Finland stands in the way of a Canadian gold medal tilt (Winnipeg Free Press)
Penguins captain Sidney Crosby not ruled out of Olympics after injury (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Edmonton Oilers keeping a close eye on Connor McDavid at the Olympics (Edmonton Sun)
Jonathan Quick makes trade deadline stance clear with Rangers set to continue selling (New York Post)
He captained Canada’s men’s hockey team at the 1956 Olympics in Italy. 70 years on, the way it ended still stings (Toronto Star)
With her knee taped up for the gold medal final, Poulin hid the pain from her Canadian teammates (Globe & Mail)
Megan Keller’s ‘why not’ attitude helps etch her name into US Olympic lore (New York Post)
Losing gold is painful, but hockey has a silver lining for Canada’s Larocque (Globe & Mail)
‘Poetic’: Hilary Knight, in her final Olympics, scores goal that gave gold medal-winning Team USA the chance it needed (Boston Globe)
Crowds gather in south suburbs to cheer on local Olympians in US women’s hockey gold-medal game (Chicago Tribune)
Slovakia has been the surprise of Olympic hockey tournament — and could be a dangerous problem for US (New York Post)
Why are hockey fans talking about Team USA’s Quinn Hughes ‘seeing ghosts’ at the Winter Olympics? (Boston Globe)
Mark Stone calling Mitch Marner's clutch struggles a 'Toronto thing' sort of got it right (Toronto Sun)
Dylan Larkin emerges as 'X factor' for USA men in Olympic hockey (Detroit Free Press)
Toews takes second place in Canadian Olympic hockey lore (Winnipeg Sun)
Mitch Marner's 'surreal' play, Olympic hockey find a mark in Maple Leafs room (Toronto Sun)
Wild hoping teammates in Italy all come back healthy (St. Paul Pioneer Press)
Olympic break might have saved the Edmonton Oilers' season (Edmonton Sun)
Arniel, Jets to keep fighting, Blues providing inspiration (Winnipeg Sun)
Lightning’s Anthony Cirelli steadily battles back from injury (Tampa Bay Times)
Dallas Stars give positive injury update on Radek Faksa (Dallas Morning News)
Chris Tanev, Dakota Joshua trending up as Maple Leafs wrap Day 3 of practice (Toronto Sun)
Sabres goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen forges through injury, focuses on playoff chase (Buffalo News)
Jets’ Comrie clutch in backup role (Winnipeg Free Press)
Why Blackhawks goalie Spencer Knight believes an illness gave him valuable experience (Chicago Sun-Times)
How Sabres left wing Josh Doan negotiates Olympic connections, international experience (Buffalo News)
Flyers defenseman Emil Andrae is ‘doing everything he can’ to get himself back into the lineup (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Familiar place, familiar number: Jack Finley 'very, very happy' to join Blues (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
How belief from coaches, gritty game have powered Parker Wotherspoon's breakout year with Penguins (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Bruins’ goalie prospect Michael DiPietro excelling in Providence (Boston Herald)
Marc-Andre Fleury is back in the Wild net ... but only to ‘help out our guys a little bit’ (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
Seth Jarvis ‘super friends’ follow Hurricanes’ forward, Team Canada to Olympics (Raleigh News & Observer)