The United States made hockey headlines on Sunday as they won the gold medal in men’s hockey at the 2025 International Ice Hockey Federation World Men’s Hockey Championships in Stockholm, Sweden. To put the American success into perspective, it was the first gold medal for the Americans at the World Championship since 1960. However, one should point out that in 1960, the Olympic Winter Games in Squaw Valley counted as the World Championships. The last time the United States won an international event that only counted as the World Championships was in 1933 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
