
Team USA now heads for ‘biggest game’ after strong 4 Nations opener
NY Post
MONTREAL — There was an absence of the pomp and circumstance that accompanied Wednesday’s Canada-Sweden opener of this 4 Nations Face-Off.
There was also an absence of electricity both on the ice and in the stands for this match between the USA and Finland that had been evident in the rink 24 hours earlier.
But there was hockey, high-stakes, best-on-best hockey, even if it took quite the while for the Americans to get to their game and display superiority in their 6-1 victory in advance of Saturday night’s showdown against the mighty Canadians.
“It is going to be,” said Brady Tkachuk, “the biggest game I’ve ever played in my career.”

Cade Cunningham, almost inarguably the best player in the East this season, is likely out for the remainder of the regular season. That’s the word out of Detroit following the depressing news that Cunningham punctured a lung when he took a knee to his side Tuesday from Washington’s Tre Johnson while chasing a loose ball.

Wednesday was another positive day at Yankees camp. For the first time since March 6, 2025 — an outing in which he knew “something wasn’t right,” which began a weeks-long saga that ended on the operating table for Tommy John surgery — Gerrit Cole was back on a mound and facing hitters in game action.











