“Oh, baby, this is the stuff,” wrote the sports website Bleacher Report in praise of the Slovak national ice hockey team’s jerseys for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Milan–Cortina. With less than two ...

Slovakia will be part of the first game in the men’s tournament in Italy, taking on Finland on Feb. 11. The women’s national team failed to qualify for the Olympics for the fourth consecutive Games.

A return to best-on-best hockey at the Olympics means heightened interest in the on-ice aesthetics of the 12 participating nations. Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; photos courtesy of Hockey Canada, USA ...