1998 Belarus men's national ice hockey team

The Belorussian hockey team was put into the preliminaries for the Olympics. They won their group that featured Germany, France and Japan by beating France 4-0, Germany 8-2 and by drawing Japan 2-2. Their first place helped them to play in the final tournament. They were in group A and lost all 3 games 5-0 to Canada and identical scores of 5-2 to Sweden and the United States. They finished last of group A and had to face the top spot in group B which was Russia. They lost 4-1 and got eliminated in the process from the tournament. They ended the tournament in 7th place.
==Trivia==
In a video game released that was related to the Olympic Hockey tournament, Belarus was represented with the Pahonia flag and with the national anthem of the former Soviet Union.
==Team roster==
Aleksandr Alekseyev 				
Aleksandr Andriyevsky				
Vadim Bekbulatov 				
Sergey Yerkovich 				
Aleksandr Galchenyuk 				
Aleksey Kalyuzhny 				
Viktor Karachun 				
Oleg Khmyl 				
Andrey Kovalyov 				
Aleksey Lozhkin 				
Igor Matushkin 				
Andrey Mezin 				
Vasily Pankov 				
Oleg Romanov 				
Oleg Antonenko 				
Yevgeny Roshchin 				
Ruslan Saley 				
Aleksandr Shumidub 				
Andrey Skabelka 				
Sergey Stas 				
Vladimir Tsyplakov 				
Eduard Zankovets 				
Aleksandr Zhurik 				
Category:1998 in hockey
Category:National team seasons