When the men's Olympic hockey tournament began last week, Team Germany, with Senators star Tim Stutzle and fellow NHL elites like Leon Draisaitl and Mo Seider, was seen as a team that might be involved in an upset or two. This wasn't what they had in mind.

The 2026 Winter Olympic Games will be one for the history books if Team Germany has its way.

Team USA is set to take on Germany on Sunday in the final game of their group stage and here are their lines and starting goalie. The post USA vs Germany Line Combinations & Starting Goalies Revealed appeared first on Heavy Sports.

Brady Tkachuk has scored in each of Team USA’s first two games of the tournament, with his two tallies tied for third most among all skaters in the Olympics behind Juraj Slafkovsky and Tim Stutzle (both with three).

You know the horse drawing meme where one side is a beautifully detailed illustration of the hind legs and the other is a scanty kindergarten doodle? That was the first thing I thought of at first glance of Germany’s Olympic roster.

In fact, Germany forwards JJ Peterka and Tim Stutzle were presented with that exact question in the context of that's what people outside their dressing room will be asking now, and neither of them even attempted to answer it. They instead found the positives from their loss to Latvia.

NHL stars Leon Draisaitl, Tim Stützle and Moritz Seider dream of inspiring young kids in their native Germany to play hockey.

The U.S. men's curling team held on for a win over Germany, while Switzerland, Great Britain, and Sweden also came away with wins during Saturday's session of play at the Milan Cortina Olympics.