The Danes aren't used to the attention their homeland has received of late, but focus at Olympics is on building hockey program

The uneasy relations between Denmark and the United States will manifest in, of all places, a hockey game on Saturday night.

Team Denmark will play against a lineup full of NHL stars for the first time in a best-on-best tournament, facing Team USA at Santagiulia Arena (3:10 p.m. ET; Peacock, USA, ICI Télé, CBC Gem, TSN).

MILAN — Lars Eller took a long, ponderous pause. “Yeah, the news,” he said. “We’re not used to being in the news that much.” See Also There’s one common theme of agony for Team USA at these Olympics The we in this case was Denmark.

Danish Foreign Affairs Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen on Saturday said that talks with U.S. officials and Greenland have progressed but there’s no “solution yet” regarding the Trump administration’s push to take over the Arctic island.

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said on Saturday that he believes negotiations with the United States over Greenland can lead to a solution that respects the Arctic island’s territorial

Hundreds of Danish veterans have staged a silent protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen. They are responding to the Trump administration's threats to take over Greenland and his belittling of their combat contributions.

Denmark coach Mikael Gath confirmed Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Frederik Andersen will sit against team USA.