The NHL season opens October 8.

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STOCKHOLM -- The United States beat Sweden 6-2 on Saturday to advance to the final of the ice hockey world championship.
In Sunday's final, the U.S. will play Switzerland. The Swiss blanked Denmark 7-0 to reach the gold medal game for the second straight year.
Switzerland shut out the U.S. 3-0 in the group stage, the Americans' only defeat.
Jeremy Swayman stopped 27 shots against Sweden as the U.S. remained on course to win the worlds for the first time since 1933.
The Americans were also formally awarded the title in 1960 and 1980 -- when they won the Olympic tournaments and the worlds did not take place.
By reaching the final, the U.S. already has achieved its best result in the tournament since the 1950 silver medal.
"It's a good feeling," captain Clayton Keller said. "There's one more game to win. We're going to focus on tomorrow."
The U.S. jumped to 2-0 in the opening period, outshooting the Swedes 13-3.
Brady Skjei scored 6:52 in with a shot from the blue line that went through heavy traffic in front of goaltender Jacob Markstrom. Cutter Gauthier doubled the advantage with 2:47 remaining, picking up the puck after a shot by Shane Pinto was blocked and directed it into the net between Markstrom's pads.
Gauthier was born in Skelleftea, Sweden, in 2004 when his father, a goaltender, played for a local team.
Conor Garland added the third with 8:53 to go in the second, knocking in a rebound. Mikey Eyssimont made it 4-0 on a 4-on-2 rush from the right circle.
Samuel Ersson replaced Markstrom in the Swedish net at the start of the final period.
William Nylander scored the first for Sweden 6:32 into the third period, and Elias Lindholm scored another 41 seconds later to give Sweden some hope at 4-2.
But defenseman Jackson LaCombe beat Ersson for the Americans' fifth with 8:51 to go. Pinto finished it off into an empty net to complete a three-point game after assisting on the opening two goals.
"Every single guy contributed, and I couldn't be more proud of our group," U.S. coach Ryan Warsofsky said.
Sweden has to settle for the bronze medal game for the second straight worlds.
Switzerland has never won the worlds.
Nino Niederreiter scored twice and Ken Jager added one in the first period for Switzerland to take command against Denmark. Denis Malgin added the fourth in the middle period, and Sandro Schmid, Damien Riat and Tyler Moy completed the rout in the third.
Switzerland goalie Leonardo Genoni made 17 saves for a second straight shutout.
Denmark, which eliminated Canada 2-1 in the quarterfinals, will face Sweden for bronze. Denmark has never medaled at the worlds.

 

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UNITED STATES WIN THE 2025 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP.
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Tage Thompson shouldn't been on the 4 nations team.

 

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Hurricanes save season, snap 15-game ECF skid with Game 4 win.​

SUNRISE, Fla. -- Frederik Andersen returned to the net and stopped 20 shots for his fifth career playoff shutout, Logan Stankoven got the only goal Carolina needed and the Hurricanes won their first Eastern Conference finals game in 20 years by beating the Florida Panthers 3-0 on Monday night to stave off elimination.
Sebastian Aho and Jordan Staal got empty-netters to seal it for the Hurricanes. They had dropped 15 consecutive East finals games, getting swept in 2009, 2019 and 2023, then dropping the first three games of this matchup.
No sweep this time, however. Carolina still trails the series 3-1, but that looks a whole lot better than 3-0 does. The Hurricanes kept the Panthers' offense completely bottled up for much of the game, limiting the reigning Stanley Cup champions to 12 shots through two periods.
Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 25 shots for Florida, which played without the injured Sam Reinhart, Niko Mikkola and A.J. Greer.
Game 5 is Wednesday in Raleigh, North Carolina. If Game 6 is needed, it'll be back in Sunrise on Friday.
Stankoven gave Carolina its first lead of the series midway through the second period when he took a cross-ice diagonal pass from Alexander Nikishin at the blue line and skated in alone on Bobrovsky. He beat the Florida goalie over the right shoulder for the 1-0 lead, ending a drought that -- depending on perspective -- had lasted for either six games or two years.
It was Carolina's first lead in the East finals since the second period of Game 2 of the 2023 matchup against Florida. A total of 364 minutes, 53 seconds -- the equivalent of more than six regulation games -- had elapsed in East finals games for the Hurricanes since their last lead.
And the win was Carolina's first in an East finals game since beating Buffalo in Game 7 in 2006, which came on the Hurricanes' way to the Stanley Cup.
The Hurricanes switched starting goalies again for Game 4, going back to Andersen. He started Games 1 and 2, then watched Game 3 when Carolina went with Pyotr Kochetkov.

 

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