Ice hockey at the 1992 Winter Olympics
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| Tournament details | |
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| 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 |
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).
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Medalists
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 | T | GF | GA | DIF | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Canada |
5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 9 | 19 | 8 |
| Unified Team |
5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 10 | 22 | 8 |
| Czechoslovakia |
5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 15 | 10 | 8 |
| France |
5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 22 | -8 | 4 |
 Switzerland |
5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 25 | -12 | 2 |
| Norway |
5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 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 |
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| Vyacheslav Butsayev − 41:01 Igor Boldin − 55:54 Vyacheslav Bykov − 58:51 |
1-0 2-0 2-1 3-1 |
57:20 − Chris Lindberg |
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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 |
| Hannu Järvenpää |
8 | 5 | 6 | 11 | |
| 7 | Vyacheslav Bykov |
8 | 4 | 7 | 11 |
| 8 | Yuri Khmylev |
8 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| Mika Nieminen |
8 | 4 | 6 | 10 | |
| 10 | Nikolai Borschevskiy |
8 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
Final Rankings
- Unified Team
- Canada
- Czechoslovakia
- United States
- Sweden
- Germany
- Finland
- France
- Norway
- Switzerland
- Poland
- Italy
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.
