Sidney Crosby’s golden goal in overtime against the USA secured victory for Canada in the final of the men’s ice hockey, on the day of the Closing Ceremony at the Vancouver Winter Games. The win on 28 February 2010 sparked scenes of joy in the city and throughout the country. Access official results for the Ice Hockey event ice hockey men at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games Olympics, plus view video highlights of top performances. Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display.
The men’s tournament starts with 12 teams split into three groups. In the preliminary round, each team plays the other three in its group once. The top four teams that come out of the prelims move automatically into the qualification round, while the other eight play to determine which four will move on. The four winners of the qualification round move into the medal round.
The eight women’s teams are divided into two groups in the preliminaries; each team plays the other three teams in its group once, with the top two teams in each group going to the semifinals.
Vancouver 2010 Hockey Schedule
Sweden will try to defend its 2006 gold medal in men’s hockey against what appear to be the strongest teams, Russia and Canada. The Russian team, which has beaten Canada to win the last two world championships, is loaded with forwards, including Alex Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin and Ilya Kovalchuk, plus nine players from the K.H.L. Canada is led by Sidney Crosby, Scott Niedermayer, Joe Thornton, Jerome Iginla and Martin Brodeur.
On the women’s side, Canada, which won gold four years ago and will be the top-seeded team in Vancouver, has four players who will add Vancouver to Olympic résumés that already include Nagano, Salt Lake City and Turin: Hayley Wickenheiser, Jennifer Botterill, Jayna Hefford and Becky Kellar. The United States squad includes the four-time Olympians Angela Ruggiero and Jenny Potter and the three-timers Natalie Darwitz, the team captain, and Julie Chu.
Vancouver 2010 Hockey Stick
The United States has won the last two world titles, each time defeating Canada in the final.
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