Resilience has defined Switzerland’s Olympic run — a campaign marked by adversity, determination, and the leadership of players like Nico Hischier, who said, “It hurts, but it's going to make us stronger.

Welcome back to Olympic hockey predictions here at Last Word On Hockey, where we will be covering the men’s ice hockey tournament at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics each day throughout the preliminary round and beyond.

Canada will play for women's Olympic hockey gold again. The defending champions are a win away from repeating, but will be the underdogs Thursday against a talented, relentless United States team that has outscored its opposition 31-1 in the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

Elana Meyers Taylor won her first gold medal, and sixth overall, taking first in women's monobob. She is now tied with Bonnie Blair as the most decorated female American winter Olympian. Her teammate, Kallie Humphries, took bronze.

We are quickly approaching one of the most exciting events of the Winter Olympics: curling. Do we understand all of the rules? Not really. Is the pressure palpable? You bet. Are tensions flaring up? More than you could know.

In bobsled, it was a banner day for the American women in the monobob. Elana Meyers Taylor and Kaillie Humphries both flew around the track as they finished on the podium. Meyers Taylor won her first gold medal and became the oldest women's bobsled medalist at 41 years old, and Humphries took home the bronze medal.

The United States and Canada are one win each away from their seventh meeting in the women's hockey gold-medal game.

Severance is coming off an outstanding NHL season in which he went 235-155-21 (plus $2,022). He entered the Olympic break on a 26-12 roll on NHL money-line picks this season, returning $1,326 for $100 players. Anyone following his hockey picks at their favorite sportsbooks could have seen huge returns.

Just 24 hours after thrashing Czechia 5-0, the Canadians will be back on the ice to face Switzerland at the 2026 Winter Olympics.