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Sweden wins hockey gold
The Swedish men's hockey team overcame early penalties to win its second-ever Olympic gold medal Sunday.
- Czechs capture hockey bronze
- Finns to play for hockey gold
- Sweden pounds Czechs in hockey
- What happened to Team Canada?
- Russia ousts Canada from Olympics
- Sweden's Ohlund out of Olympics
- Gretzky makes no excuses for loss
- Czechs beat Slovakia to advance
- Swedes dominate Swiss in hockey
- Finns oust Americans in hockey
- Team Canada prevails over Czechs
- Canada's golden girls
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Crib Sheet
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.