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The men's tournament in
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was held in
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,
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, Canada, from February 16–28, 2010. Games were hosted at two venues – Canada Hockey Place (renamed from "General Motors Place" for the Olympics due to IOC rules disallowing host venues to be named after non-Olympic sponsors) and
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. These Olympics were the first to take place in a city with an NHL team since then, which meant players on the
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who were competing in the Olympics were playing in their home arena:
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for Canada,
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for the United States, Pavol Demitra for Slovakia, Sami Salo for Finland,
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for Germany, and
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and Henrik Sedin for Sweden. Teams from twelve national hockey associations competed, seeded into three groups for the preliminary round. The tournament consisted of 30 games: 18 in the preliminary round (teams played the other teams in their own group); 4 qualification playoff games; 4 quarterfinal games; 2 semifinal games; 1 bronze medal game; and 1 gold medal game. During the tournament,
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of Finland became the all-time leader for points scored in the Olympics. He notched an assist in his second game of the tournament for 37 career points, surpassing
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of the Soviet Union,
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of Czechoslovakia, and Harry Watson of Canada. Sweden's
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set a modern-day Olympic
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streak record of 172 minutes and 34 seconds, continuous from the final of the gold medal game of the
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until Sweden's quarterfinal against Slovakia. The tournament was won by Canada for the record eighth time (one more than the Soviet Union), which defeated the United States in overtime in the gold medal game. Canada's loss to the U.S. in the preliminary round of the tournament remains, as of the conclusion of the
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, their most recent defeat in non-exhibition best-on-best international men's play.


Qualification

Belarus, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States qualified as the top nine teams in the
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. Germany, Latvia and Norway qualified via the qualification tournament for teams ranked 10th through 30th.


Rosters


Preliminary round

Points to each team were awarded as follows: *3 points for a win at the conclusion of regulation time *2 points for an overtime or shootout win *1 point for an overtime or shootout loss *0 points for a loss at the conclusion of regulation If two or more teams were tied in points, the following tiebreaker criteria were used: * points earned in games involving only tied teams * goal difference in games involving only tied teams * goals scored in games involving only tied teams * goal difference in all group games * goals scored in all group games * better 2009 IIHF World Ranking position If a criterion left only two teams tied, then those teams were ranked based on their head-to-head result.


Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Ranking after preliminary round


Playoff round

Following the completion of the preliminary round, all teams were ranked 1D through 12D. To determine this ranking, the following criteria were used ''in the order presented'': *higher position in the group *higher number of points *better goal difference *higher number of goals scored for *better 2009
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.


Bracket

: † Indicates
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victory : ‡ Indicates
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victory


Qualification playoffs

The top four ranked teams (1D–4D) received byes to and were deemed the home team in the quarterfinals as they were seeded to advance, with the remaining eight teams (5D–12D) playing qualification playoff games as follows: * vs. (winner re-ranked as E1) * vs. (winner re-ranked as E2) * vs. (winner re-ranked as E3) * vs. (winner re-ranked as E4). If the score remained even after regulation, a 10-minute overtime period was played. If neither team scored, a shoot out of three rounds of penalty shots decided the winner. The four winners of these qualification playoff games advanced to the quarterfinal round, while the losers of the qualification playoff games received a final ranking of 9 through 12 based on their preliminary round ranking. All times are local ( UTC−8)


Quarterfinals

Teams seeded D1 to D4 were the home teams. If the teams were tied after 60 minutes of regulation, a 10-minute overtime period decided the winner immediately upon the next goal. If the game remained tied after the overtime period, a penalty shot competition determined the winning team. Following the quarterfinal games, the winning teams were re-ranked F1 through F4, with the winner of 1D vs. E4 re-ranked as F1, the winner of 2D vs. E3 re-ranked as F2, the winner of 3D vs. E2 re-ranked as F3, and the winner of 4D vs. E1 re-ranked as F4. The losers of the quarterfinal round games received a final ranking of 5 through 8 based on their preliminary round ranking. All times are local ( UTC−8).


Semifinals

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Bronze medal game

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Gold medal game

All times are local ( UTC−8). The gold medal game was a rematch of the men's tournament in
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held in
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, United States. In addition,
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,
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,
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and Jarome Iginla of Team Canada were returnees from the 2002 gold-winning squad and collected their second gold medal.
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and
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were the only players remaining from USA's 2002 silver squad. The final score was a 3–2 win for Team Canada. Goal scorers for Canada were Jonathan Toews, Corey Perry and
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, with the winning goal scored in overtime. For USA, the goal scorers were
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and
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, the latter tying the game with 25 seconds left, forcing it to go into sudden death. Sidney Crosby scored the game-winning goal off a pass from Jarome Iginla, seven minutes and forty seconds into overtime for Canada, gaining victory over the United States. The puck has been sent to the
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in Toronto; in Canadian media, Crosby's goal has been compared in significance to the ones scored by
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in the 1972 Summit Series and
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in the
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. The referees for the final were Bill McCreary (Canada) and Dan O'Halloran (Canada), while the linesmen were
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(Finland) and Jean Morin (Canada). The gold medal game was the last competitive event at the Olympics before the
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.


Game summary


Television ratings

The gold medal game drew a big hockey audience in both Canada and the United States. In Canada, the game drew an average 16.6 million viewers while 26.5 million Canadians watched at least part of the game.
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claims that 22 million people – or two thirds of the Canadian population – were watching the gold medal game when Sidney Crosby scored in overtime, making the game the most-watched television broadcast in Canadian history. However, a new ratings system intended to better track out-of-home viewership was only implemented in August 2009, making it difficult to accurately compare these results with ratings prior to that date – specifically, the 2002 Canada–USA gold medal game in Salt Lake City, the record holder under the previous system. There was some speculation that the final game of the 1972
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had as many as 18 million viewers, although recently recovered
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archives indicate that only 4.255 million Canadians watched that game live. In the United States,
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said that the game was the most-watched hockey game in the U.S. in 30 years, drawing 27.6 million, the largest since the United States–Finland game that decided the gold medal at the
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.


Final rankings

The final standings of the tournament according to the
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Statistics


Average age

Team Finland was the oldest team in the tournament, averaging 31 years and 5 months. Team USA was the youngest team in the tournament, averaging 27 years and 2 months. Gold medalists team Canada averaged 28 years and 2 months. Tournament average was 29 years.


Leading scorers

''Rankings based upon points.''


Leading goaltenders

''Goalkeepers with 40% or more of their team's total minutes.''
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posters * (2) * * * * *


Awards

United States'
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was named the
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and received the Directorate Award for best goaltender of the tournament. Directorate Awards also went to
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(United States) for best defenceman, and to Jonathan Toews (Canada) for best forward. The tournament all-star team was voted on by the international media at the conclusion of the event. The following players were named: Toews, along with
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and Duncan Keith would become the fourth, fifth and sixth players to win both Olympic gold medal and Stanley Cup (with the
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) in the same year, following Ken Morrow 1980, and
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and
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(2002).
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would become the fourth player to win both Olympic silver medal and Stanley Cup in the same year, following Red Wings
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in 1998, and
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and
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in 2002.


Triple Gold Club

The
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, made up of individuals who have won the Stanley Cup plus gold medals at the Olympics and
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, gained two new members: * Team Canada centre
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became the 23rd player to win all three competitions. He had previously won the Stanley Cup in 2006 with the
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and the World Championships in
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. * Team Canada head coach
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became the first coach in the Triple Gold Club. He had led Team Canada to World Championships gold in
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and the
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to the Stanley Cup in 2008. Later the same season, Team Canada centre Jonathan Toews would go on to become the 24th and youngest player in the Triple Gold Club, following up his Olympic gold medal with the Stanley Cup with the
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just four months after winning Olympic gold. He had previously won the World Championships in
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.


Officials

Games were primarily officiated by NHL referees, a stipulation by the NHL if most Olympic players are NHLers, according to the
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(not NHL) rules.


References


External links


Game schedule
(official IIHF web site)
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