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The team qualified for the 1972 Olympics and won silver, making it the first Pool B team to win an Olympic medal. [60] Czechoslovakia won the bronze medal in 1972. [61] In 1976, Czechoslovakia won the silver and West Germany won bronze. [62] Along with Canada, the Swedish team did not participate in the 1976 tournament joining the boycott. [63]
Ice hockey is a sport that is contested at the Winter Olympic Games. A men's ice hockey tournament has been held every Winter Olympics (starting in 1924); an ice hockey tournament was also held at the 1920 Summer Olympics. [1] From 1920 to 1968, the Olympics also acted as the Ice Hockey World Championships, and the two events occurred ...
The American team won a silver medal at the first ever hockey tournament played at the 1920 Summer Olympics. The Americans won a bronze medal at the 1936 Winter Olympics. The gold medal-winning 1980 team lit the Olympic flame at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. Tony Amonte played in two Olympics for the United States, winning a silver medal ...
The United States of America's men's, women's, and men's under-20 teams compete annually in the Ice Hockey World Championships, IIHF World Women's Championships, and the IIHF World Junior Championship. The men's and women's senior teams also compete quadrennially in the Olympic Games, starting from 1920 and 1998, respectively.
The American ice hockey team's greatest success was the "Miracle on Ice" at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, when American college players defeated the heavily favored seasoned professionals from the Soviet Union on the way to a gold medal. Though ice hockey is not a major sport in most areas of the United States, the "Miracle ...
Pages in category "Olympic ice hockey players for the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 220 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
TV ratings for Canada vs USA gold medal matchup were the highest in Olympic history to that time. [6] In the United States, NBC's live coverage of the gold medal hockey game drew a 10.7 rating, the highest-rated hockey game, Olympic or NHL, since the 1980 Winter Olympics and was the largest network hockey audience in the U.S. in 22 years. [7]
List of Olympic men's ice hockey players for Slovakia; List of Olympic men's ice hockey players for Slovenia; List of Olympic men's ice hockey players for South Korea; List of Olympic ice hockey players for the Soviet Union; List of Olympic men's ice hockey players for Switzerland