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Team USA is looking to avenge their loss at the gloves and sticks of Canada in the Gold Medal game at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Friday morning at 8:30 am locally, they will face off in a semi-final match to decide who has a chance at the gold. On Tuesday, to pump up the fans of both nations, Director Jamie Winterstern released a video simply titled 'Dear Canada'.

A lot of casual hockey fans are probably unaware that the United States hockey team has gone without a gold medal since 1980's "Miracle on Ice." That's 18 years before the incorporation of NHL players.

I've got a lot of ties to our neighbors up north, so many that often times I'm associated as being Canadian myself. I frequent the beautiful land often, and when I'm in the states, I'm in the homes of Canadian families. They spoil me with their nationally exclusive foods, which I want to share with you.

The annual CH2M Hill Nuclear Night will be held on Friday, January 24 as the Tri-City Americans host the Seattle Thunderbirds. Each year the team wears a special edition jersey for the evening and this year's might be my favorite one ever.

The Stockton Thunder of the East Coast Hockey League have come up with a creative and interesting idea for their latest promotion to help fill the stands. As part of their “Kids Take Over Stockton Arena Night”, the organization gave 845 kids the opportunity to paint whatever they wanted on the ice. OK, maybe not anything...

Here's something to know about hockey: When hockey players fight, they are rarely angry at each other.

It's no secret that hockey players are some of the toughest dudes in all of pro sports. Pittsburgh Penguins right winger Pascal Dupuis unnecessarily proved that Wednesday night after catching a high stick from a teammate and then doing his own dental work on the bench.

Be sure to smile for the added security cameras placed in and around the Toyota Center this weekend as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will be testing its facial recognition capabilities. During a portion of Saturday's Tri-City Americans season opener against the Spokane Chiefs, video will be taped by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory testing the capabilities the latest software. Read

Remember that Tiger Woods commercial years ago where he bounced the ball on a club before hitting it a few hundred yards? Well this video of Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane almost makes that look like childs play.

Last winter, former Tri-City Americans defenseman Clayton Stoner was lucky enough to win one of only 300 a grizzly bear hunting licenses through a British Columbia limited entry lottery. Little did the current Minnesota Wild player know a photo taken after his successful hunt would put him at the center of controversy.

The NHL won’t only look different next year – it will also sound different.

September 21 is not that far away...!