NHL players will participate in the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 this February, the first time since 2014 the best players in the world will be on the Olympic stage. NHL.com will post a story each Monday to count down to the 2026 Olympics. Today, a sit-down with Team USA general manager Bill Guerin:

Bill Guerin understands one color matters for the United States entry at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.

Gold.

"We have to win," Guerin said. "We have to win another one of these. It's been since 1996. We just have to find a way."

The United States, which won its first IIHF World Championship since 1933 in May, has not finished first in a best-on-best international tournament since Guerin was a forward with the U.S. at the 1996 World Cup of Hockey.

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