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1992 Winter Olympics
Ice Hockey
1992 Olympics.png
Tournament details
Host nation  France
Dates 8–23 February
Teams 12
Venue(s) Méribel Ice Palace (in host cities)
Tournament statistics
Games played 46
Goals scored 316  (6.87 per game)
Scoring leader(s) Flag of Canada Joe Juneau 15 points

The men's ice hockey tournament 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).

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.

  • April 14, 1991, Denmark
Flag of Denmark Denmark 4:6 Flag of Poland Poland
  • April 16, 1991, Poland
Flag of Poland Poland 9:5 Flag of Denmark Denmark

Poland qualified in final tournament

Preliminaries

Group A

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

Team Pld W L T GF GA Pts
Flag of United States United States 5 4 0 1 18 7 9
Flag of Sweden Sweden 5 3 0 2 22 11 8
Flag of Finland Finland 5 3 1 1 22 11 7
Flag of Germany Germany 5 2 3 0 11 12 4
Flag of Italy Italy 5 1 4 0 18 24 2
Flag of Poland Poland 5 0 5 0 4 30 0


  • February 9
Flag of Sweden 7:2 Flag of Poland
Flag of Finland 5:1 Flag of Germany
Flag of United States 6:3 Flag of Italy
  • February 11
Flag of Finland 9:1 Flag of Poland
Flag of United States 2:0 Flag of Germany
Flag of Sweden 7:3 Flag of Italy
  • February 13
Flag of Italy 7:1 Flag of Poland
Flag of United States 4:1 Flag of Finland
Flag of Sweden 3:1 Flag of Germany
  • February 15
Flag of Germany 5:2 Flag of Italy
Flag of Finland 2:2 Flag of Sweden
Flag of United States 3:0 Flag of Poland
  • February 17
Flag of Germany 4:0 Flag of Poland
Flag of Finland 5:3 Flag of Italy
Flag of United States 3:3 Flag of Sweden

Group B

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

Team Pld W L T GF GA Pts
Flag of Canada Canada 5 4 1 0 28 9 8
Unified Team 5 4 1 0 32 10 8
Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic 5 4 1 0 25 15 8
Flag of France France 5 2 3 0 14 22 4
Flag of Switzerland Switzerland 5 1 4 0 13 25 2
Flag of Norway Norway 5 0 5 0 7 38 0


  • February 8
Flag of France 2:3 Flag of Canada
Flag of the Czech Republic 10:1 Flag of Norway
Unified Team 8:1 Flag of Switzerland
  • February 10
Flag of France 4:6 Flag of the Czech Republic
Unified Team 8:1 Flag of Norway
Flag of Canada 6:1 Flag of Switzerland
  • February 12
Flag of the Czech Republic 4:3 Unified Team
Flag of Canada 10:0 Flag of Norway
Flag of France 4:3 Flag of Switzerland
  • February 14
Flag of France 0:8 Unified Team
Flag of Switzerland 6:3 Flag of Norway
Flag of Canada 5:1 Flag of the Czech Republic
  • February 16
Flag of France 4:2 Flag of Norway
Flag of the Czech Republic 4:2 Flag of Switzerland
Unified Team 5:4 Flag of Canada


Consolation Round 9th-12th Places

  • February 18
Flag of Norway 5:3 Flag of Italy
Flag of Switzerland 7:2 Flag of Poland


11th Place Match

  • February 20
Flag of Poland 4:1 Flag of Italy


9th Place Match

  • February 20
Flag of Norway Norway 5:2 Flag of Switzerland Switzerland


Consolation Round 5th-8th Places

  • February 20
Flag of France France 4:5 Flag of Germany Germany]
Flag of Sweden 3:2 Flag of Finland


7th Place Match

  • February 22
Flag of France France 1:4 Flag of Finland Finland


5th Place Match

  • February 22
Flag of Sweden Sweden 4:3 Flag of Germany Germany


Medal Round

Quarter-finals

  • February 18
Flag of Canada 4:3 Flag of Germany
Flag of the Czech Republic 3:1 Flag of Sweden
Flag of France 1:4 Flag of United States
Unified Team 6:1 Flag of Finland


Semi-finals

  • February 21
Flag of Canada 4:2 Flag of the Czech Republic
Unified Team 5:2 Flag of United States


Bronze Medal Game

  • February 22
Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic 6:1 Flag of United States United States


Gold Medal Game

  • February 22
Unified Team 3:1 Flag of Canada Canada]



Final Rankings

  1. Unified Team
  2. Flag of Canada Canada
  3. Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic
  4. Flag of United States United States
  5. Flag of Sweden Sweden
  6. Flag of Germany Germany
  7. Flag of Finland Finland
  8. Flag of France France
  9. Flag of Norway Norway
  10. Flag of Switzerland Switzerland
  11. Flag of Poland Poland
  12. Flag of Italy Italy
  13. Flag of Denmark Denmark

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 didn't 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.

Team Photos

References


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