The men's ice hockey tournament at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, was the 17th Olympic Championship. All the games were played at the Méribel Ice Palace in Méribel, about 45 km from host city Albertville. The competition, held from 9 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. Canada won the silver medal, its first hockey medal since 1968 and 11th Olympic ice hockey medal overall.
Medalists
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Sergei Bautin<br /> Igor Boldin<br /> Nikolai Borschevsky<br /> Vyacheslav Butsayev<br /> Vyacheslav Bykov<br /> Evgeni Davydov<br /> Alexei Zhitnik<br /> Darius Kasparaitis<br /> Nikolai Khabibulin<br /> Yuri Khmylev<br /> Andrei Khomutov<br /> Andrei Kovalenko<br /> Alexei Kovalev<br /> Igor Kravchuk<br /> Vladimir Malakhov<br /> Dmitri Mironov<br /> Sergei Petrenko<br /> Vitali Prokhorov<br /> Mikhail Shtalenkov<br /> Andrei Trefilov<br />Dmitri Yushkevich<br /> Alexei Zhamnov<br /> Sergei Zubov
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Dave Archibald<br /> Todd Brost<br /> Sean Burke<br /> Kevin Dahl<br /> Curt Giles<br /> David Hannan<br /> Gordon Hynes<br /> Fabian Joseph <br /> Joe Juneau<br /> Trevor Kidd<br /> Patrick Lebeau<br /> Chris Lindberg<br /> Eric Lindros<br /> Kent Manderville<br /> Adrien Plavsic<br /> Dan Ratushny<br /> Sam Saint-Laurent<br /> Brad Schlegel<br /> Wallace Schreiber<br /> Randy Smith<br /> David Tippett<br /> Brian Tutt<br /> Jason Woolley
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Patrik Augusta<br /> Petr Bříza<br /> Jaromír Dragan<br />Leo Gudas<br /> Miloslav Hořava<br /> Petr Hrbek<br /> Otakar Janecký<br /> Tomáš Jelínek<br /> Drahomír Kadlec<br /> Kamil Kašťák<br /> Robert Lang<br /> Igor Liba<br /> Ladislav Lubina<br /> František Procházka<br /> Petr Rosol<br /> Bedřich Ščerban<br /> Jiří Šlégr<br /> Richard Šmehlík<br /> Róbert Švehla<br /> Oldřich Svoboda<br /> Radek Ťoupal<br /> Peter Veselovský<br /> Richard Žemlička
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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.
Poland qualified to 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.
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Consolation round
Bracket
9–12th-place semifinals
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11th-place game
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9th-place game
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Final round
Bracket
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Quarter-finals
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5–8th-place semifinals
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Semi-finals
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Seventh-place game
Fifth-place game
Bronze-medal game
Gold-medal game
Statistics
Average age
Team Germany was the oldest team in the tournament, averaging 28 years and 6 months. Team USA was the youngest team in the tournament, averaging 24 years. Gold medalists Unified Team averaged 24 years and 2 months. Tournament average was 26 years and 4 months.
Leading scorers
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|align=left| Joe Juneau
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|align=left|border|22px Andrei Khomutov
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|align=left| Robert Lang
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|align=left| Teemu Selänne
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|rowspan=2|5
|align=left| Eric Lindros
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|align=left| Hannu Järvenpää
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|align=left|border|22px Vyacheslav Bykov
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|rowspan=2|8
|align=left|border|22px Yuri Khmylev
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|align=left| Mika Nieminen
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|align=left|border|22px Nikolai Borschevskiy
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Final rankings
Unified Team 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 decided to keep it for himself. Only players are given Olympic medals; coaches and management are not. The replacement medal was given to Khabibulin by the International Olympic Committee in a private medal ceremony during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
References
External links
- Jeux Olympiques 1992
- Olympedia - Ice Hockey at the 1992 Winter Olympics