Without getting ahead of themselves, New Zealand probably expected to be facing Australia in tomorrow's Hawkes Bay Festival women's final in Hastings.

The Northland brother and sister play hockey for New Zealand, have had their share of battles with injury, and are eyeing trips to the Rio Olympics.

Auckland writer Suzanne McFadden has brought one of the great New Zealand sports stories alive in Striking Gold, about the 1976 Montreal Olympic gold medal-winning hockey team.

Trevor Manning was the battered star of the 1976 Olympic hockey final in Montreal when New Zealand won gold. And he paid to get there. 40 years on the Herald’s Chris Rattue talks with Manning about NZ hockey’s finest hour.

40 years on the 1976 men's team are still New Zealand's only Olympic hockey medallists. This is their story.

The Black Sticks Women have defeated Canada 5-1 in the second test at the Gallagher Hockey Centre in Hamilton this afternoon.

The Black Sticks women have continued their dominance over Canada with a 6-0 thrashing in Hamilton today.

The world No8-ranked New Zealand are halfway through the second of two four-game series against Malaysia and South Korea.