Watch: Why Canada's Olympic Hockey Team Is Staying in Hotel Instead of Olympic VillageTeam Canada's hockey team isn't embracing an important Olympic tradition. While most athletes competing in the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games will mix and mingle in the Olympic Village, goaltender Logan Thompson explained why the Canadian men's hockey team has opted to stay in a hotel. "I don't think we're doing it as an insult or anything like that," Thompson, 28, told SportsNet in an interview published Feb. 9. "We want to win gold, and we want to give ourselves the best opportunity to do so.