Only two sports to have appeared in both the Winter and Summer Olympics: Ice hockey and figure skating

First men’s Olympic champion: Canada, 1920 Antwerp

First Olympics NHL players were allowed to compete: 1998 Nagano

Olympic women’s hockey debut: 1998 Nagano

First women’s Olympic champion: United States, 1998 Nagano

Number of consecutive world titles Canadian women’s team won before finishing second at the 2005 world championship tournament: 8

Canadian women’s player who competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics: Hayley Wickenheiser (softball)

Famous cousin of Hayley Wickenheiser: Former NHL player Doug Wickenheiser

Famous brother of American player Cammi Granato: Former NHL player Tony Granato

All-time leading scorer in U.S. history, who was cut from the Olympic team in October 2005: Cammi Granato

Most Olympic gold medals in men’s hockey: 8, Soviet Union/ Russia

Most consecutive gold medals won: 4, Canada 1920-1932, Russia, 1964-1976

Greatest gap between gold medals in men’s hockey: Canada, 1952-2002

Most medals won: 13, Canada

Most world championships won by a country: Canada and Russia tied at 23

Canada’s Olympic record between 1920-1952: 37-1-3

Russia’s Olympic record between 1956-1992: 60-6-2

Soviet Union’s Olympic hockey debut: 1956 Cortina d’Ampezzo Games

Only Jewish member of the 1932 and 1936 German Winter Olympics: Rudi Ball

Fewest number of teams that competed in one Olympics: 4, 1932 Lake Placid Games

First professional player to take part in an Olympics: Jerry German, U.S., 1920 Antwerp Summer Games

Only country besides Canada and Soviets/Russians to win more than one hockey gold medal: U.S., 2 (1960 Squaw Valley, 1980 Lake Placid)

Largest margin of victory: Canada defeated Switzerland 33-0, 1924 Chamonix

Olympic Games Canada withdrew from in protest against professional athletes used by USSR and other Communist countries: 1972 Sapporo, 1976 Innsbruck

Number of teams that competed in the 2003 women’s hockey world championship: None. (The tournament in Beijing was cancelled due to the SARS scare)

Goalie who wore a mask 32 years before Montreal Canadiens Jacques Plante became the first NHL goalie to wear one: Canadian Elizabeth Graham, a Queen’s University student who wore a wire fencing mask in 1927.