How to Play Along with the Olympic Games in NHL Sense Arena

The Winter Games are ON. So is your next challenge.

As the best players in the world take the ice in Milan, you don’t have to just sit back and watch. With NHL Sense Arena, you can jump into the action yourself, training alongside Olympic-caliber talent and feeling the speed and pressure of the international game from home. If you’re fired up to watch Team USA and Canada go against the world this month, here’s how to play along in VR.

Train Like an Olympian (USA & Canada Challenges)

International hockey is fast, skilled, and unforgiving. The margin is tiny. That’s exactly what these limited-time USA and Canada challenges are built around.

Team USA Gauntlet

Sharpen your hands like an Olympic champion in our brand-new Team USA Gauntlet.

This high-tempo stickhandling challenge drops you into a USA-themed obstacle course with Lady Liberty, Eagles and more USA-themed puck obstacles that force you to stay composed and controlled at speed. It’s built to test:

• Hand speed

• Puck control in tight space

• Anticipation

• Calm under pressure

Every rep pushes you to keep your head up and process the ice — just like you have to in international play.

Canadian Challenge Gauntlet

Backing Canada? The Canadian Challenge Gauntlet originally introduced in Pavel Barber's Canadian Challenge brings that same intensity with a different flavor.

Expect creativity, quick transitions, and moments that force you to react instead of overthinking. It’s designed to mirror the skill and pace Canada is known for, including tight hands, fast decisions, and constant movement. Olympic hockey isn’t about standing still. It’s about scanning, reading, and executing. Let's see if you're up to the task!

Play Full-Ice 3v3 NHL Games in VR

Watching Olympic hockey is electric. Playing at that pace is something else entirely.

Inside NHL Sense Arena, you can jump into full-ice 3v3 NHL games in VR and compete with — and against — many of the same NHL players who will be representing their countries in the Winter Games. You’re not pressing buttons. You’re scanning the ice. Reading pressure. Anticipating the next play before it develops. It’s real decision-making in real time. The closest you’ll get to international speed without stepping onto that stage yourself.

Skate With — and Face — the Best in the World

What’s it like to save a clean slap shot from an NHL star? What’s it like to skate in a rush with the best players in the world?

In NHL Sense Arena, you can experience both.

As a position player, you can run VR drills featuring NHL talent, learning their timing and spacing while building your own hockey IQ. As a goalie, you can step into the crease and track elite releases off the blade. Read the shoulders. Pick up the puck early. Make the split-second decision that separates a save from a goal. 

Goalies can also face real shots from US NTDP players inside our Goalie Game Flow module. These aren’t predictable warmups. You’re tracking authentic releases and patterns from elite shooters. It’s the kind of timing and read you’d expect at the highest level.

See what it’s like to save a slap shot from, and skate with, the best players in the world. Get a feel for the speed of the game while the Olympic Men’s and Women’s teams heat up the ice in Milan.

Follow Taylor Heise’s Training Plan

If you’re watching Team USA’s women compete, you can train alongside one of the game’s elite players directly inside the headset!

NHL Sense Arena includes Taylor Heise’s training plan, built to develop:

• Pre-scanning habits

• Offensive awareness

• Faster decision-making

• Game-ready confidence

It’s structured, progressive training designed to translate directly to your on-ice performance. Not random reps. Not busywork. Real development. While she competes on the international stage, you can follow a plan built at that level.

Don’t Just Watch the Winter Games. Train With Them.

The Olympics only come around every four years. The inspiration is real. The pace is eye-opening.

Use it.

When you see an Olympic forward shoulder-check before touching the puck, jump into VR and build that same habit. When you watch a goalie track a cross-ice one-timer, step into Game Flow and feel that timing yourself.

With NHL Sense Arena, you can:

• Compete in USA & Canada-themed challenges

• Play full-ice 3v3 NHL games in VR

• Train with NHL players

• Face elite shooters as a goalie

• Follow Taylor Heise’s structured training plan

• Build hockey IQ, reaction speed, and confidence - just like the players on the world stage

  
  

The world’s best are battling for gold. Strap on the headset. Step onto the ice. And don’t just watch the Winter Games — play along with them.