Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament (WFAC)

Men's ice hockey at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Venues	Canada Hockey Place UBC Thunderbird Arena
Dates	16–28 February 2010
Medalists
Canada   United States   Finland

The men's tournament in ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from 16 to 28 February 2010. Games were hosted at two venues – Canada Hockey Place (renamed from "General Motors Place" for the Olympics due to IOC rules disallowing host venues to be named after non-Olympic sponsors) and UBC Thunderbird Arena. It was the fourth time since the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano that the National Hockey League allowed its players to compete. These Olympics were the first to take place in a city with an NHL team since then, which meant players on the Vancouver Canucks who were competing in the Olympics were playing in their home arena.

Teams from twelve national hockey associations competed, seeded into three groups for the preliminary round. The tournament consisted of 30 games: 18 in the preliminary round (teams played the other teams in their own group); 4 qualification playoff games; 4 quarterfinal games; 2 semifinal games; 1 bronze medal game; and 1 gold medal game.

During the tournament, Teemu Selänne of Finland became the all-time leader for points scored in the Olympics. He notched an assist in his second game of the tournament for 37 career points, surpassing Valeri Kharlamov of the Soviet Union, Vlastimil Bubník of Czechoslovakia, and Harry Watson of Canada. Sweden's goaltender Henrik Lundqvist set a modern-day Olympic shutout streak record of 172 minutes and 34 seconds, continuous from the final of the gold medal game of the 2006 Olympics until Sweden's quarterfinal against ____.

The tournament was won by Canada, which defeated the United States in overtime in the gold medal game.

Qualification

	Date	Location	Vacancies	Qualified
Host			1	Canada
2008 IIHF World Ranking	28 September 2008		8	Czechoslovakia Finland Latvia Norway Soviet Union Switzerland Sweden United States
Final qualification tournament	5–8 February 2009	Template:Country data Germany Germany	1	Template:Country data Germany Germany
Final qualification tournament	5–8 February 2009	France	1	France
Final qualification tournament	5–8 February 2009	Denmark	1	Austria
Total			12

Pre-qualification tournament

Group A

• (30) TUR - 0-0-0-3 - 0
• (31) SPA - 2-0-0-1 - 6
• (35) ARG - 2-0-0-1 - 6
• (38) MEX - 2-0-0-1 - 6

Olympic pre-qualification

Group B

• (19) POL - 3-0-0-0 - 9
• (24) CHI - 2-0-0-1 - 6
• (25) KOR - 1-0-0-2 - 3
• (31) SPA - 0-0-0-3 - 0

Group C

• (20) JAP - 3-0-0-0 - 9
• (23) ROM - 1-1-0-1 - 5
• (26) AUS - 1-0-1-1 - 4
• (29) NZL - 0-0-0-3 - 0

Group D

• (21) LIT - 2-0-0-1 - 9
• (22) EST - 2-0-0-1 - 6
• (27) BUL - 1-0-0-2 - 3
• (28) BEL - 0-0-0-3 - 0

Final Olympic qualification

Group E

• (10) GER - 3-0-0-0 - 9
• (15) YUG - 1-1-0-1 - 5
• (16) HUN - 1-0-1-1 - 4
• (22) LIT - 0-0-0-3 - 0

Group F

• (11) FRA 3-0-0-0 - 9
• (14) ITA 1-1-0-1 - 5
• (17) NED 0-0-1-1 - 1
• (20) JAP 0-1-1-0 - 3

Group G

• (12) DEN - 2-0-1-0 - 7
• (13) AUT - 2-1-0-0 - 8
• (18) GBR - 0-0-1-0 - 1
• (19) POL - 0-1-0-0 - 2

Seeding

The seeding in the preliminary round was based on the 2009 IIHF World Ranking:

Group A	Group B	Group C
Soviet Union (1)	Canada (2)	Sweden (3)
Czechoslovakia (6)	United States (5)	Finland (4)
Switzerland (7)	Latvia (8)	Norway (9)
Austria (14)	France (12)	Template:Country data Germany Germany (10)

Rosters

Each teams roster consisted of at least 15 skaters (forwards, and defencemen) and 2 goaltenders, and at most 22 skaters and 3 goaltenders.

Officials

The IIHF selected 16 referees and 16 linesmen to work the tournament.

Referees
Canada	Paul Devorski Marc Joannette Bill McCreary Dan O'Halloran
Czechoslovakia	Peter Ország Vladimír Šindler
Finland	Jyri Rönn
Soviet Union	Vyacheslav Bulanov
Sweden	Patrik Sjöberg Marcus Vinnerborg
Switzerland	Danny Kurmann Brent Reiber
United States	Dennis LaRue Chris Rooney

Linesmen
Canada	Shane Heyer Sylvain Losier Jean Morin Jay Sharrers
Czechoslovakia	Petr Blümel Milan Novák
Finland	Stefan Fonselius
Template:Country data Germany Germany	Felix Winnekens
Soviet Union	Andriy Kicha Yuriy Oskirko
Sweden	Peter Sabelström
Switzerland	Roger Arm
United States	Brian Murphy Thor Nelson

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
Soviet Union	3	2	1	0	0	15	6	+9	8	Advances to the quarterfinals
Czechoslovakia	3	2	0	0	1	10	7	+3	6	Team must play in Qualification playoffs
Switzerland	3	1	0	1	1	9	6	+3	4
Austria	3	0	0	0	3	4	19	–15	0

16 February 2010 21:00

Soviet Union

8 – 2 (3–0, 1–0, 4–2)

Austria

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 16,862

	Evgeni Nabokov	Goalies	Reinhard Divis	Referees: Dennis LaRue (Sweden) Marcus Vinnerborg (Sweden)
	Zaripov (Fedorov, Nikulin) – 02:38 Radulov (Fedorov, Kalinin) – 07:46 Ovechkin (Semin) - 19:25 Malkin (Afinogenov, Kovalchuk) (PP1) – 38:18 Ovechkin (Datsyuk) - 40:59 Zaripov (Zinovjev) – 41:30 Kovalchuk (Malkin, Tyutin) – 43:04 Morozov (Markov) – 58:57	1 – 0 2 – 0 3 – 0 4 – 0 4 – 1 5 – 1 6 – 1 7 – 1 7 – 2 8 – 2	40:33 – Vanek (Trattnig, Koch) 43:35 – Harand (Grabner, Setzinger)
	10 min	Penalties	16 min
	45	Shots	20

Group B

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
United States	3	3	0	0	0	14	5	+9	9	Advances to the quarterfinals
Canada	3	1	1	0	1	14	7	+7	5	Team must play in Qualification playoffs
Latvia	3	1	0	1	1	8	10	–2	3
France	3	0	0	1	2	5	19	–14	1

Group C

Team	GP	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
Sweden	3	3	0	0	0	9	3	+6	9	Advances to the quarterfinals
Finland	3	2	0	0	1	9	4	+5	6
Germany	3	0	1	0	2	5	10	–5	2	Team must play in Qualification playoffs
Norway	3	0	0	1	2	6	12	–6	1

17 February 2010 12:00

Finland

4 – 1 (2–0, 1–1, 1–0)

Norway

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 16,639

17 February 2010 16:30

Sweden

2 – 0 (0–0, 2–0, 0–0)

Template:Country data Germany Germany

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 16,966

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19 February 2010 12:00

Norway

2 – 4 (0–2, 1–1, 1–1)

Sweden

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 16,878

19 February 2010 21:00

Finland

5 – 0 (1–0, 2–0, 2–0)

Template:Country data Germany Germany

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 16,662

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20 February 2010 21:00

Germany Template:Country data Germany

4 – 3 OT (1–1, 0–1, 2–1, 1–0)

Norway

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 16,979

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21 February 2010 21:00

Sweden

3 – 0 (1–0, 2–0, 0–0)

Finland

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 17,410

Playoff round

Following the completion of the preliminary round, all teams will be ranked 1D through 12D. To determine this ranking, the following criteria will be used in the order presented:

• higher position in the group
• higher number of points
• better goal difference
• higher number of goals scored for
• better 2009 IIHF World Ranking.

Ranking after preliminary round

Rank	Team	GP	GS	Pts	GD	GF	WR	Qualification or relegation
1D	United States	3	1	9	+9	14	5	Advances to the quarterfinals
2D	Sweden	3	1	9	+7	9	3
3D	Soviet Union	3	1	7	+7	13	1
4D	Finland	3	2	6	+6	10	4
5D	Czechoslovakia	3	2	6	+3	10	6	Team must play in Qualification playoffs
6D	Canada	3	2	5	+7	14	2
7D	Norway	3	3	5	+3	7	7
8D	Switzerland	3	3	4	–2	8	8
9D	Latvia	3	3	3	–4	8	10
10D	Germany	3	4	0	–9	3	9
11D	France	3	4	0	–14	5	11
12D	Austria	3	4	0	–15	4	13

Bracket

Qualification playoffs

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Gold medal game

1D

United States

2

9D

Template:Country data Germany Germany

0

8D

Latvia

2

9D

Template:Country data Germany Germany

3

1D

United States

6

5D

Czechoslovakia

2

4D

Finland

0

5D

Czechoslovakia

2

5D

Czechoslovakia

4

12D

Austria

2

1D

United States

2

6D

Canada

3

3D

Soviet Union

3

Bronze medal game

6D

Canada

7

6D

Canada

8

4D

Czechoslovakia

4

11D

France

2

10D

Norway

5

6D

Canada

3

10D

Norway

2

2D

Sweden

3

10D

Norway

4

7D

Switzerland

4

10D

Norway

5

Qualification playoffs

23 February 2010 12:00

Latvia

2 – 3 OT (2–0, 0–0, 0–2, 1–0)

Template:Country data Germany Germany

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 17,397

23 February 2010 16:30

Canada

8 – 2 (1–0, 3–1, 4–1)

France

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 17,723

23 February 2010 19:00

Czechoslovakia

4 – 2 (1–0, 0–2, 3–0)

Austria

UBC Thunderbird Arena, Vancouver Attendance: 5,448

23 February 2010 21:00

Switzerland

4 – 5 GWS (1–1, 2–2, 1–1, 0–0) (SO: 0–1)

Norway

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 17,583

	Jonas Hiller	Goalies	Pål Grotnes	Referees: Paul Devorski (Canada) Peter Ország (Czechoslovakia) Linesmen: Petr Blümel (Czechoslovakia) Tim Nowak (United States)
	Sprunger (Domenichelli, Sannitz) – 01:03 Wick (Seger, Plüss) – 29:15 Sannitz (Seger, Wick) – 35:42 Blindenbacher (Wick, Streit) (PP1) – 49:56	1 – 0 1 – 1 1 – 2 2 – 2 3 – 2 3 – 3 4 – 3 4 – 4 Shootout:	12:21 – Vikingstad (Thoresen, Jakobsen) 25:24 – Hansen (Thoresen) (PP1) 38:46 – Vikingstad (Zuccarello Aasen, Olimb) 52:18 – Vikingstad (Thoresen)
	Déruns Lemm Rüthemann	1 – 1 1 – 1 1 – 2	Skrøder Thoresen Zuccarello Aasen
	10 min	Penalties	4 min
	38	Shots	23

Quarterfinals

24 February 2010 12:00

United States

2 – 0 (0–0, 0–0, 2–0)

Template:Country data Germany Germany

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 17,536

	Ryan Miller	Goalies	Thomas Greiss	Referees: Paul Devorski (Canada) Peter Ország (Czechoslovakia) Linesmen: Shane Heyer (Canada) Roger Arm (Switzerland)
	Parise (Rafalski, Modano) (PP1) – 42:08 Parise (ENG) – 59:48	1 – 0 2 – 0
	6 min	Penalties	8 min
	44	Shots	19

24 February 2010 16:30

Soviet Union

3 – 7 (1–4, 2–3, 0–0)

Canada

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 17,740

	Evgeni Nabokov (00:00–24:07) Ilya Bryzgalov (24:07–60:00)	Goalies	Roberto Luongo	Referees: Dennis LaRue (United States) Marcus Vinnerborg (Sweden) Linesmen: Thor Nelson (United States) Milan Novák (Czechoslovakia)
	Kalinin (Volchenkov, Fedorov) – 14:39 Afinogenov (Kovalchuk, Grebeshkov) – 24:46 Gonchar (Malkin) (PP1) – 31:40	0 – 1 0 – 2 0 – 3 1 – 3 1 – 4 1 – 5 1 – 6 2 – 6 2 – 7 3 – 7	02:21 – Getzlaf (Boyle, Pronger) 12:09 – Boyle (Heatley, Marleau) (PP1) 12:55 – Nash (Toews, Richards) 18:18 – Morrow (Boyle, Keith) 23:10 – Perry (Getzlaf, Keith) 24:07 – Weber (Toews, Iginla) 29:51 – Perry (Staal, Getzlaf)
	10 min	Penalties	10 min
	28	Shots	42

24 February 2010 19:00

Finland

0 – 2 (0–0, 0–0, 0–2)

Czechoslovakia

UBC Thunderbird Arena, Vancouver Attendance: 5,461

	Miikka Kiprusoff	Goalies	Tomáš Vokoun	Referees: Dan O'Halloran (Canada) Marc Joanette (Canada) Linesmen: Yuri Oskirko (Soviet Union) Jay Sharrers (Canada)
		0 – 1 0 – 2	53:34 – Gáborík (Hossa, Demitra) (PP1) 58:25 – Erat (Sekera) (ENG)
	4 min	Penalties	12 min
	31	Shots	31

24 February 2010 21:00

Sweden

3 – 4 (0–0, 2–3, 1–1)

Norway

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 17,493

	Henrik Lundqvist	Goalies	Pål Grotnes	Referees: Bill McCreary (Canada) Jyri Rönn (Finland) Linesmen: Brian Murphy ((United States) Jean Morin (Canada)
	Hörnqvist (Forsberg) – 33:49 Zetterberg (Enström) – 34:26 Alfredsson (Bäckström, Eriksson) – 49:39	0 – 1 0 – 2 1 – 2 2 – 2 2 – 3 2 – 4 3 – 4	27:34 – Thoresen (Zuccarello Aasen, Vikingstad) (PP1) 28:11 – Myrvold (Hansen, Røymark) 39:12 – Vikingstad (Jakobsen, Zuccarello Aasen) (PP1) 49:01 – Skrøder (Zuccarello Aasen, Vikingstad)
	10 min	Penalties	6 min
	29	Shots	14

Semifinals

26 February 2010 12:00

United States

6 – 2 (6–0, 0–1, 0–1)

Czechoslovakia

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 17,602

	Ryan Miller (00:00–48:29) Tim Thomas (48:29–60:00)	Goalies	Tomáš Vokoun (00:00–10:08) Jaroslav Halák (10:08–60:00)	Referees: Dan O'Halloran (Canada) Marcus Vinnerborg (Sweden) Linesmen: Peter Sabelström (Sweden) Template:Country data Germany Felix Winnekens (Germany)
	Malone – 02:04 Parise (Modano, Rafalski) (PP1) – 06:22 Johnson (Pavelski, Malone) (PP1) – 08:36 Kane – 10:08 Kane (Rafalski) – 12:31 Modano (Langenbrunner, Parise) – 12:46	1 – 0 2 – 0 3 – 0 4 – 0 5 – 0 6 – 0 6 – 1 6 – 2	27:18 – Jágr (Plekanec, Eliáš) 54:46 – Demitra (Židlický) (PP1)
	6 min	Penalties	20 min
	25	Shots	25

26 February 2010 18:30

Canada

3 – 2 (2–0, 1–0, 0–2)

Norway

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 17,799

	Roberto Luongo	Goalies	Pål Grotnes	Referees: Dennis LaRue (United States) Jyri Rönn (Finland) Linesmen: Stefan Fonselius (Finland) Thor Nelson (United States)
	Marleau (Weber, Niedermayer) – 13:30 Morrow (Pronger, Getzlaf) – 15:17 Getzlaf (Perry, Pronger) (PP1) – 36:54	1 – 0 2 – 0 3 – 0 3 – 1 3 – 2	51:35 – Holøs (Hansen) 55:07 – Bastiansen (Holtet, Olimb)
	2 min	Penalties	4 min
	28	Shots	21

Bronze medal game

27 February 2010 19:00

Czechoslovakia

4 – 5 (3–1, 0–2, 1–2)

Norway

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 17,583

	Jaroslav Halák	Goalies	Pål Grotnes	Referees: Bill McCreary (Canada) Marc Joannette (Canada) Linesmen: Brian Murphy (United States) Sylvain Losier (Canada)
	Jágr (Gáborík, Hossa) (PP1) – 07:03 Gáborík (Demitra, Chára) (PP1) – 09:48 M. Michálek (Eliáš, Plekanec) (PP1) – 18:52 Šatan (Židlický, M. Michálek) – 48:41	1 – 0 2 – 0 2 – 1 3 – 1 3 – 2 3 – 3 4 – 3 4 – 4 4 – 5	Zuccarello Aasen (Holøs) 27:27 – Vikingstad (Thoresen, Zuccarello Aasen) 39:59 – Bastiansen (Olimb, Thoresen) 51:23 – Bastiansen (Olimb, Spets) 53:45 – Thoresen (Vikingstad, Holøs)
	4 min	Penalties	29 min
	46	Shots	23

Gold medal game

28 February 2010 12:15

United States

2 – 3 OT (0–1, 1–1, 1–0, 0–1)

Canada

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 17,748

	Ryan Miller	Goalies	Roberto Luongo	Referees: Vladimír Šindler (Czechoslovakia) Jyri Rönn (Finland) Linesmen: Stefan Fonselius (Finland) Peter Sabelström (Sweden)
	Kesler (Kane) – 32:44 Parise (Langenbrunner, Kane) (EA) – 59:35	0 – 1 0 – 2 1 – 2 2 – 2 2 – 3	12:50 – Toews (Richards) 27:13 – Perry (Getzlaf, Keith) 67:40 – Crosby (Iginla)
	4 min	Penalties	4 min
	36	Shots	39

Final ranking

The official IIHF final ranking of the tournament:

	Canada
	United States
	Finland
4	Sweden
5	Soviet Union
6	Czechoslovakia
7	Norway
8	Switzerland
9	Latvia
10	Template:Country data Germany Germany
11	France
12	Austria

2010 Olympic Champion
Canada 8th title

See also

Ice hockey at the Olympics