Veale column: Cortina US hockey team was full of all-stars

Veale column: Cortina US hockey team was full of all-stars

The men’s hockey teams competing at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan are full of professionals, many of whom have been named all-stars for their current and past accomplishments. The men’s hockey teams that competed in 1956 in Cortina d’Ampezzo were not professional, but full of all-stars, past, present and future. The United States team finished in silver-medal position among 10 teams, perhaps unfortunate that this was the first Olympic hockey…