1+ mon, 2+ week ago (314+ words) The world's greatest figure skaters are about to spin, jump and flip on the road to Milan. With the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics quickly approaching, the world figure skating season is about to kick into high gear. From Grand Prix events to national championships, the next few months will determine which athletes skate for Team USA in Italy. NBC Sports will present all of the figure skating in the buildup to the Olympics, as well as all of the events at the Milan Cortina Games themselves. Here is everything to know for the upcoming figure skating competitions ahead of the Milan Cortina Olympics. NBC Sports will broadcast 10 major figure skating events in the lead-up to the Milan Cortina Olympics, along with the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in March. NBC Sports and Peacock will air more than 300 hours of live coverage…...

6+ mon, 15+ hour ago (435+ words) The last two NHL teams standing in 2025 are the same as in 2024. The Edmonton Oilers and Florida Panthers will square off in the Stanley Cup Final for the second straight year. It's just the fifth time since the start of the expansion era in 1967-68 that the same two teams have met in consecutive Cup Finals. The Panthers outlasted the Oilers in a roller-coaster 2024 Cup Final that went the distance. Edmonton erased a 3-0 series deficit with three straight victories in elimination games, but Florida avoided a historic collapse by taking Game 7 at home to claim the franchise's first championship. This is the Panthers' third straight appearance in the Cup Final as they look to join an exclusive list of repeat Stanley Cup winners. Florida, which entered the 2025 playoffs as the Atlantic Division's No. 3 seed, bounced the Tampa Bay Lightning in five…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago (354+ words) Four teams are on the doorstep of the'Stanley Cup Final. The'Dallas Stars'and'Edmonton Oilers'will square off in a Western Conference Final rematch in the 2025 NHL playoffs, while the defending champion Florida Panthers and the Carolina Hurricanes meet in the Eastern Conference Final for the second time in three years. Now, the Hurricanes need to get past the defending champs in order to reach their first Cup Final since the franchise's lone championship triumph in 2006. The Oilers, last year's Stanley Cup runners-up, are also eyeing a return trip to the Cup Final in search of the'franchise's first championship since 1990.'Connor McDavid'and Co. dropped their first two games of this postseason, but have only suffered one loss since. Edmonton, the Pacific Division's No. 3 seed,'overcame a 2-0 first-round series deficit'against the No. 2'Los Angeles Kings'with four straight comeback wins before'taking down'the No. 1'Vegas Golden…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago (220+ words) Hockey is headed to Jerry World. The Dallas Stars will host an NHL Stadium Series game at AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, in 2027, the league announced on Monday. The tilt will be held at 7 p.m. CT on Feb. 20, 2027, and broadcasted on ESPN. The Stars' opponent will be announced at a later date. AT&T Stadium has hosted countless sporting events since it opened in 2009, including Super Bowl XLV, the College Football Playoff National Championship in 2015, the Final Four in 2014 and the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight last November. The stadium, located in Arlington, Texas, will also host FIFA World Cup matches next summer. "Hosting the NHL's Stadium Series with the Dallas Stars is another great example of the vision we've always had for what AT&T Stadium could be beyond football," Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones said…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago (257+ words) The Dallas Stars released their 2025-26 season schedule on Wednesday and circled a November date for a rematch with the Edmonton Oilers. In May, the Stars lost 4-1 to the Oilers in their third straight trip to the Western Conference Finals. The Oilers lost to the Carolina Panthers 4-2 in the Stanley Cup Finals. Led by new head coach Glen Gulutzan, the Stars will host 41 opponents at American Airlines Center next season, including "13 within the Central Division, 12 against Pacific Division opponents and 16 vs. Eastern Conference foes." The team said they'll have 16 home weekend dates, including four on Fridays, eight on Saturdays and eight on Sundays. Most of the games next season will start at 7 p.m. The Stars will be busy over the holidays. They'll play the Utah Mammoth the day after Thanksgiving, host a New Year's Eve matchup against Buffalo, and then fly to…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago (374+ words) The International Ice Hockey Federation unveiled the schedule Tuesday for the men's and women's tournaments at the 2026 Olympics in Milan and Cortina. Women's hockey starts on Feb. 5 with the U.S. against Czechia and Canada versus Finland among the opening games. The U.S. and Canada renew their rivalry in the preliminary round on Feb. 10, and the gold-medal game is set for Feb. 19. Men's hockey with the'return of NHL players'opens the following day with Finland facing Slovakia and host Italy against Sweden. Without Russia in the 12-team field, the U.S. is grouped with Germany, Latvia and Denmark and will play each of them in a round robin. The U.S. opens Feb. 12 against Latvia, the same day Canada faces Czechia. The NHL's best are participating for the first time since 2014 in Sochi. "It's great that the NHL players are back in the Olympics," U.S. general manager Bill Guerin…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago (175+ words) Gage Goncalves scored Tampa Bay's third goal in the fourth round of the shootout and the Lightning beat the Dallas Stars 3-2 on Thursday night. Brandon Hagel and Anthony Cirelli had a goal and an assist each for the Lightning, who have won three consecutive games. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 22 saves through overtime and two in the shootout. Oskar Back and Mason Marchment scored for the Stars, whose eight-game home winning streak was snapped. Casey DeSmith tied a season high with 36 saves through overtime but his career-long six-game winning streak came to an end. Goncalves scored his first shootout goal this season after Vasilevskiy made a glove save on Mikko Rantanen. Cirelli followed Hagel's first-period goal scoring on a rebound at 7:20 of the second period to give the Lightning a 2-0 lead. Back's deflection 38 seconds later started Dallas' comeback. Marchment tied the score…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago (297+ words) Leo Carlsson's short-handed goal midway through the third period proved to be the winner as the Anaheim Ducks rallied to beat the Dallas Stars 7-5 on Thursday night. Carlsson scored on a slap shot 10:38 into the third period to give the Ducks a 6-4 lead. Troy Terry had an assist on the goal. Chris Kreider scored twice, Cutter Gauthier, Olen Zellweger and Ian Moore added goals and Mason McTavish added an empty-netter for Anaheim, which won its fifth straight and for the seventh time in eight games. Lukas Dostal finished with 21 saves. Wyatt Johnston had two power-play goals, Roope Hintz, Tyler Seguin and Mikko Rantanen also scored for Dallas, which lost for the third time in four games. Miro Heiskanen had four assists and Jake Oettinger made 18 saves. Dallas had its seven-game points streak halted. Trailing 2-0 after one period, Anaheim stormed back…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago (276+ words) The Dallas Stars signed 21-year-old center Wyatt Johnston to a $42 million, five-year contract extension at the same time that they made the'biggest deal at the NHL's trade deadline'in acquiring Mikko Rantanen. Johnston's deal on Friday was overshadowed by the Stars getting Rantanen from the Carolina Hurricanes and signing him to a $96 million, eight-year contract extension. But keeping the young center once mentored by'Joe Pavelski'also is a significant move for Dallas. General manager Jim Nill said when talking with reporters after the trade deadline that it was the right time to finish the extension that had been in the works since early this season. Johnston could have become a restricted free agent on July 1. "We just thought this was maybe the perfect time to bring it together," Nill said. "We're adding a major piece, Wyatt's a big part of our team…...

8+ mon, 2+ day ago (322+ words) Casey DeSmith made 46 saves, Roope Hintz and Mikko Rantanen each had a goal and an assist, and the Dallas Stars beat the Calgary Flames 5-2 on Thursday night. Casey DeSmith made 46 saves, Roope Hintz and Mikko Rantanen each had a goal and an assist, and the Dallas Stars beat the Calgary Flames 5-2 on Thursday night. Wyatt Johnston and Mikael Granlund also scored, and Matt Duchene added an empty-net goal for the Stars, winners of four games in a row. DeSmith got the start for Dallas after Jake Oettinger made 42 saves in the previous night's4-3 win over the Edmonton Oilers. Nazem Kadri scored twice for the Flames. Flames starter Dustin Wolf stopped 14 of 18 shots in the loss. Calgary captain Mikael Backlund returned to the lineup after six games out with an upper-body injury. Trailing 1-0, Calgary had two potential goals called off before…...