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Russia and Slovakia will meet in the world hockey championship final Sunday for the first time since the Slovaks won their only title a decade ago against the Russians.

Bloodied but unbowed, Russia's Kontinental Hockey League refuses to let the plane crash that killed 36 members of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team last month derail their mission.

E.J. Hradek's weekly mailbag looks at the following topics: Dan Bylsma as a potential U.S. coach for the 2014 Olympics; the Canucks as a Cup contender; the likely sites of Winter Classic '12 (Philly, Denver, D.C.); and Jonas Hiller as an All-Star.

Blog | Conversation | January 06, 2011

Pittsburgh Penguins players Sergei Gonchar and Evgeni Malkin will join up with the Russia team at the ice hockey world championship in the next few days.

Jaromir Jagr, who has spent the past two seasons with Avangard Omsk of the KHL in Russia, has signed a new, one-year contract with the team.

All hockey roads were supposed to lead Mark Johnson to a men's head-coaching job. But the former "Miracle on Ice" star has found that the road less traveled was the plan all along.

The Russian Ice Hockey Federation released its roster for the country's Olympic camp, which will be held Aug. 29-Sept. 1 in Moscow

Russia is expected to reluctantly sign a new transfer agreement brokered by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) and the NHL on Saturday, ending a two-year boycott that threatened to throw the sport into chaos.

Evgeni Malkin, the Penguins' No. 1 pick in 2004, has fled his Russian club days after agreeing a new contract, local media reported Saturday.

Alexei Yashin, Alexei Kovalev, Alexander Ovechkin and Nikolai Khabibullin are among the 19 NHL players on the Russian roster for the Turin Olympics.