1992 Winter Olympics

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
Denmark	4:6	Poland
*April 16, 1991, Poland
Poland	9:5	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
United States	5 	4	0	1	18	7 	9
Sweden 	5 	3	0	2	22	11	8
Finland 	5 	3	1	1	22	11	7
Germany 	5 	2	3	0	11	12	4
Italy 	5 	1	4	0	18	24	2
Poland 	5 	0	5	0	4 	30	0
*February 9
	7:2	
	5:1	
	6:3	
*February 11
	9:1	
	2:0	
	7:3	
*February 13
	7:1	
	4:1	
	3:1	
*February 15
	5:2	
	2:2	
	3:0	
*February 17
	4:0	
	5:3	
	3:3	
===Group B===
Top four teams (shaded ones) advanced to the medal round.
Team 	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Canada 	5 	4	1	0	28	9 	8
Unified Team 	5 	4	1	0	32	10	8
Czech Republic	5 	4	1	0	25	15	8
France 	5 	2	3	0	14	22	4
Switzerland 	5 	1	4	0	13	25	2
Norway 	5 	0	5	0	7 	38	0
*February 8
 	2:3 	
 	10:1	
Unified Team	8:1 	
*February 10
 	4:6	
Unified Team	8:1	
 	6:1	
*February 12
	4:3 	Unified Team
	10:0	
	4:3 	
*February 14
	0:8	Unified Team
	6:3	
	5:1	
*February 16
 	4:2	
 	4:2	
Unified Team	5:4	
==Consolation Round 9th-12th Places==
*February 18
	5:3	
	7:2	
===11th Place Match===
*February 20
	4:1	
===9th Place Match===
*February 20
Norway	5:2	Switzerland
==Consolation Round 5th-8th Places==
*February 20
France	4:5	Germany]
 	3:2	
===7th Place Match===
*February 22
France	1:4	Finland
===5th Place Match===
*February 22
Sweden	4:3	Germany
==Medal Round==
===Quarter-finals===
*February 18
 	4:3	
 	3:1	
 	1:4	
Unified Team	6:1	
===Semi-finals===
*February 21
 	4:2	
Unified Team	5:2	
===Bronze Medal Game===
*February 22
Czech Republic	6:1	United States
===Gold Medal Game===
*February 22
Unified Team	3:1	Canada]
==Final Rankings==
# Unified Team
# Canada
# Czech Republic
# United States
# Sweden
# Germany
# Finland
# France
# Norway
# Switzerland
# Poland
# Italy
# 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==
1992Canada.jpg|Canada
==References==
*Jeux Olympiques 1992
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