NHL.com staff writer Mike Zeisberger has been covering the NHL regularly since 1999. Each Monday he will use his extensive network of hockey contacts for his weekly notes column, “Zizing 'Em Up,” to preview the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.

TORONTO -- Only 84 miles separates Milan, host of the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, from Turin, the site of the consensus greatest moment in Swedish hockey history.

That’s how geographically close members of the modern day Team Sweden will be in February from the place where future Hall of Famers like Mats Sundin , Nicklas Lidstrom and Peter Forsberg helped the Tre Kronor win the gold medal at the 2006 Turin Olympics with a 3-2 win over rival Finland in the championship game, sending thousands of fans back home from Stoc

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