The schedule for next year's International Ice Hockey Federation World Championships has been revealed

The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has become the latest official partner of the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG) in Ashgabat.

medical and sporting programmes.They have signed sponsorship deals with sports including football, hockey

Ensuring top players from Major League Baseball (MLB) participate at the Olympics is the priority for Tokyo 2020 as they prepare for the Games, their Sports Director has claimed.

believes ensuring participation from the world's best players should be the priority ©WBSCThe National Hockey

continuing to maintain that players from the league will be barred from next year's Winter Olympic ice hockey

in Pyeongchang, despite participating in the past five editions.Unlike with ice hockey, the WBSC believe

not be separated as they played out a 1-1 draw on the second day of play at the women's Pan American Hockey

Stefan Mair has resigned as head coach of the Italian men's national ice hockey team.

Italian Ice Sports Federation.Mair's departure comes after Italy lost three matches against Kontinental Hockey

respectively.The coach was also criticised after Italy lost all seven of their matches at the International Ice Hockey

Senior International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Richard Pound has claimed the National Hockey League

athletes would not officially be allowed to compete at the event in South Korea.The International Ice Hockey

 Players from the American Hockey League, a 30-team professional league based in the United States

, will be granted permission to represent their national teams.The mostly Russian-based Kontinental Hockey

champions Argentina defeated Chile to secure a second successive victory at the men's Pan American Hockey

States produced an emphatic start on home soil as they beat Mexico 6-0 at the women's Pan American Hockey

Argentina claimed a comfortable 6-0 win over the United States on the opening day of the men's Pan American Hockey

Saramento all found the net for Canada.Brazil overcame Mexico 3-1 on the opening day of the Pan American Hockey

USA Hockey has today announced the appointment of Tony Granato as the head coach of America’s men’s ice

hockey team for the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games.

Granato was an assistant coach for the US Olympic hockey team at Sochi 2014, where the country lost to

competitions, including the Calgary 1988 Winter Olympics, the 1991 Canada Cup, three International Ice Hockey

 Currently the head men’s ice hockey coach at his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin, Granato

spent 13 seasons as either a head coach or assistant coach in the National Hockey League (NHL), a year

for USA Hockey international teams, including the gold medal-winning 2017 US national junior side."

The fifth edition of the men’s Pan American Hockey Cup is due to begin tomorrow in Lancaster in Pennsylvania

receive automatic qualification and with Argentina and Canada having already secured their place via the Hockey

qualification spot will become available for some of the higher-placed teams who participated in the Hockey

the 2018 World Cup in London.Argentina and the US have already qualified for the World Cup via the Hockey

qualification spot will become available for some of the higher-placed teams who participated in the Hockey

Victoria’s potential bid for the 2022 Commonwealth Games was among the key topics of conversation as the Canadian city welcomed the Gold Coast 2018 Queen’s Baton.

reportedly claimed funding announcements could be made next week.Ravi Kahlon, a former international field hockey

Five athletes from the Midlands have pledged their support to Birmingham’s 2022 Commonwealth Games bid, with the candidate city claiming it highlights the youth, diversity and inclusion of their plans.

been earmarked to stage badminton.The Symphony Hall would stage weightlifting and powerlifting, while hockey

South Korea have recruited another foreign athlete to represent them in next year's Winter Olympic Games by granting a passport to American ice dancer Alexander Gamelin.

South Korea have granted passports to foreign athletes in several sports, including in biathlon, ice hockey

 Last year Canadian ice hockey players Matt Dalton and Eric Regan had been given Korean citizenship

joined four other North American-born players on the 22-man national team, coached by former National Hockey

Hockey Canada has invited 67 players to attend training camps for the national women's development and

 Following the camp, Hockey Canada will continue to evaluate players with their club teams during

Canada's under-18 team while Noémie Marin, right, is head coach of the nation's women's development team ©Hockey

be kept on the under-18 players following the camp in preparation for next year's International Ice Hockey

Federation Under-18 Women’s World Championship in Nizhny Novgorod in Russia.Melody Davidson, Hockey