It’s been close to a nine-year wait for Nathan MacKinnon, who last played best-on-best hockey for Team North America at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey, with Jon Cooper behind the bench, in an overtime game against Team Sweden.

Find out which streaming services or TV channels you need for the NHL's week-long international tourney between the US, Canada, Sweden and Finland.

Two former Gopher hockey stars will be among the 92 players competing in the NHL's 4 Nations Face-Off tournament, which begins on Wednesday night in Montreal. The first-of-its-kind tournament, which is essentially replacing the league's All-Star game this year,