Ice hockey at the 1992 Winter Olympics

1992 Winter Olympics
Ice Hockey
Tournament details

Host country	France
Dates	8–23 February
Teams	12
Venue(s)	Méribel Ice Palace
Final positions
Champions	Unified Team (1st title)
Runner-up	Canada
Third place	Czechoslovakia
Fourth place	United States
Tournament statistics
Matches played	46
Goals scored	316 (6.87 per match)
Scoring leader(s)	Joe Juneau 15 points
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The men's ice hockey tournament (women's was added in 1998) at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, was the 16th Olympic Championship. The games were played at the Méribel Ice Palace in Méribel, about 45 km from host city Albertville. The competition, held from 8 to 23 February, was won by the Unified Team in its only appearance. The team was composed of some newly emerged nations from the former Soviet Union, which had dissolved just weeks before the Games began. The silver medal win by Canada extended its all-time Olympic ice hockey lead to 11 medals (extended to 15 medals, for the men's team, as of the 2014 Winter Olympics).

Medalists

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Unified Team (EUN) Sergei Bautin Igor Boldin Nikolai Borschevsky Vyacheslav Butsayev Vyacheslav Bykov Evgeni Davydov Alexei Zhitnik Darius Kasparaitis Nikolai Khabibulin Yuri Khmylev Andrei Khomutov Andrei Kovalenko Alexei Kovalev Igor Kravchuk Vladimir Malakhov Dmitri Mironov Sergei Petrenko Vitali Prokhorov Mikhail Shtalenkov Andrei Trefilov Dmitri Yushkevich Alexei Zhamnov Sergei Zubov	Canada (CAN) Dave Archibald Todd Brost Sean Burke Kevin Dahl Curt Giles David Hannan Gordon Hynes Fabian Joseph Joe Juneau Trevor Kidd Patrick Lebeau Chris Lindberg Eric Lindros Kent Manderville Adrien Plavsic Dan Ratushny Sam Saint-Laurent Brad Schlegel Wallace Schreiber Randy Smith David Tippett Brian Tutt Jason Woolley	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Patrik Augusta Petr Bříza Jaromír Dragan Leo Gudas Miloslav Hořava Petr Hrbek Otakar Janecký Tomáš Jelínek Drahomír Kadlec Kamil Kašťák Robert Lang Igor Liba Ladislav Lubina František Procházka Petr Rosol Bedřich Ščerban Jiří Šlégr Richard Šmehlík Róbert Švehla Oldřich Svoboda Radek Ťoupal Peter Veselovský Richard Žemlička

Qualification

The Olympic tournament was to be contested by twelve nations. The top eleven nations from the 1991 World Championships (eight from pool A, top three from pool B) qualified directly, while the twelfth ranked nation had to play off against the winner of that year's pool C.^[1]

April 14, 1991, Denmark

Denmark

4:6

Poland

April 16, 1991, Poland

Poland

9:5

Denmark

Poland qualified in final tournament

First round

Twelve participating teams were placed in two groups. After playing a round-robin, the top four teams in each group advanced to the Medal Round while the last two teams competed in the Consolation Round for the 9th to 12th places.

	Team advanced to the Final Round
	Team sent to compete in the Consolation Round

Group A

Team	USA	SWE	FIN	GER	ITA	POL
USA		3-3	4–1	2–0	6–3	3–0
SWE	3-3		2–2	3–1	7-3	7-2
FIN	1-4	2–2		5-1	5–3	9-1
GER	0-2	1–3	1–5		5–2	4–0
ITA	3–6	3–7	3–5	2–5		7–1
POL	0–3	2–7	1–9	0–4	1–7

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
United States	5	4	0	1	18	7	11	9
Sweden	5	3	0	2	22	11	11	8
Finland	5	3	1	1	22	11	11	7
Germany	5	2	3	0	11	12	-1	4
Italy	5	1	4	0	18	24	-6	2
Poland	5	0	5	0	4	30	-26	0

February 9

Sweden	7:2	Poland
Finland	5:1	Germany
United States	6:3	Italy

February 11

Finland	9:1	Poland
United States	2:0	Germany
Sweden	7:3	Italy

February 13

Italy	7:1	Poland
United States	4:1	Finland
Sweden	3:1	Germany

February 15

Germany	5:2	Italy
Finland	2:2	Sweden
United States	3:0	Poland

February 17

Germany	4:0	Poland
Finland	5:3	Italy
United States	3:3	Sweden

Group B

Top four teams (shaded ones) advanced to the medal round.

Team	CAN	Unified Team	TCH	FRA	SUI	NOR
CAN		4-5	5–1	3–2	6–1	10–0
Unified Team	5-4		3–4	8–0	8-1	8-1
TCH	1-5	4–3		6-4	4–2	10-1
FRA	2-3	0–8	4–6		4–3	4–2
SUI	1–6	1–8	2–4	3–4		6–3
NOR	0–10	1–8	1–10	2–4	3–6

Team	GP	W	L	GF	GA	DIF	PTS
Canada	5	4	1	28	9	19	8
Unified Team	5	4	1	32	10	22	8
Czechoslovakia	5	4	1	25	15	10	8
France	5	2	3	14	22	-8	4
Switzerland	5	1	4	13	25	-12	2
Norway	5	0	5	7	38	-31	0

February 8

France	2:3	Canada
Czechoslovakia	10:1	Norway
Unified Team	8:1	Switzerland

February 10

France	4:6	Czechoslovakia
Unified Team	8:1	Norway
Canada	6:1	Switzerland

February 12

Czechoslovakia	4:3	Unified Team
Canada	10:0	Norway
France	4:3	Switzerland

February 14

France	0:8	Unified Team
Switzerland	6:3	Norway
Canada	5:1	Czechoslovakia

February 16

France	4:2	Norway
Czechoslovakia	4:2	Switzerland
Unified Team	5:4	Canada

Consolation Round 9th-12th Places

February 18

Norway	5:3	Italy
Switzerland	7:2	Poland

11th Place Match

February 20

Poland

4:1

Italy

9th Place Match

February 20

Norway

5:2

Switzerland

Consolation Round 5th-8th Places

February 20

France	4:5	Germany
Sweden	3:2	Finland

7th Place Match

February 22

France

1:4

Finland

5th Place Match

February 22

Sweden

4:3

Germany

Final round

Quarter-finals

February 18

Canada

4:3 (SO)
(1-2, 1-0, 1-1)

Germany

February 18

Czechoslovakia

3:1
(1-1, 0-0, 2-0)

Sweden

February 19

France

1:4
(1-0, 0-3, 0-1)

United States

February 19

Unified Team

6:1
(2-1, 2-0, 2-0)

Finland

Semi-finals

February 21

Unified Team

5:2
(2-1, 0-1, 3-0)

United States

February 21

Canada

4:2
(2-1, 0-1, 2-0)

Czechoslovakia

Bronze Medal Game

February 22

Czechoslovakia

6:1
(2-0, 1-0, 3-1)

United States

Gold Medal Game

February 23
14:15

Unified Team

3:1
(0-0, 0-0, 3-1)

Canada

Méribel Ice Palace
Attendance: 6,100


Mikhail Shtalenkov	Goalies	Sean Burke	Referee: Sven Erik Sold
Vyacheslav Butsayev − 41:01 Igor Boldin − 55:54 Vyacheslav Bykov − 58:51	1-0 2-0 2-1 3-1	57:20 − Chris Lindberg

Leading scorers

Rk	Name	GP	G	A	Pts
1	Joe Juneau	8	6	9	15
2	Andrei Khomutov	8	7	7	14
3	Robert Lang	8	5	8	13
4	Teemu Selänne	8	7	4	11
5	Eric Lindros	8	5	6	11
5	Hannu Järvenpää	8	5	6	11
7	Vyacheslav Bykov	8	4	7	11
8	Yuri Khmylev	8	4	6	10
8	Mika Nieminen	8	4	6	10
10	Nikolai Borschevskiy	8	7	2	9

Final Rankings

Unified Medal controversy

Russian goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin was the third on the depth chart and never played when the Unified Team won gold in Albertville, France. Instead of giving the gold to someone who did not play, coach Viktor Tikhonov kept it. Only players are given Olympic medals; coaches and management are not. The medal was finally returned to him in a private medal ceremony during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.

References

↑ 1992 olympic qualifier

Jeux Olympiques 1992

Events at the 1992 Winter Olympics (Albertville)

Alpine skiing Biathlon Bobsleigh Cross‑country skiing Curling (demonstration) Figure skating Freestyle skiing Ice hockey Luge Nordic combined Short track speed skating Ski jumping Speed skating Speed skiing (demonstration)

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