The men's tournament in
ice hockey at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held in
Gangneung,
South Korea
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between 14 and 25 February 2018. Twelve countries
qualified for the tournament; eight of them did so automatically by virtue of their
ranking
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by the
International Ice Hockey Federation
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The IIHF maintains the IIHF World Ranking based on international ice hockey to ...
, one,
South Korea
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, automatically qualified as hosts, while the three others took part in a qualification tournament.
After five consecutive Olympic tournaments in which the
National Hockey League
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(the world's premier professional league) allowed its players to participate in the Olympics and adjusted its schedule to accommodate the tournament, the NHL announced in 2017 that it would prohibit any player under NHL contract, including those not actually playing for an NHL team, from participating in the Olympics.
The NHL secured the cooperation of the
International Ice Hockey Federation
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The IIHF maintains the IIHF World Ranking based on international ice hockey to ...
and the IOC ensuring that nations would not be allowed to ask NHL players to participate.
Unlike the NHL, the vast majority of
European leagues accommodated an Olympic break, headlined by Russia-based
KHL's 33-day break, Sweden-based
Swedish Hockey League's 14-day break, Switzerland-based
National League's 25-day break, German-based
Eishockey Liga's 26-day break, Czech Republic–based
Extraliga's 18-day break, and Slovakia-based
Tipsport liga's 14-day break. Conversely, Finland-based
SM-liiga did not accommodate a break, but allowed its top players to leave the clubs and participate in the Olympic Games.
The
Russian national team, competing under the name of the
Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR), won the gold medal, defeating the
German national team with a score of 4–3 in overtime in the final. For Germany, winning the silver medal was the greatest achievement in the history of German ice hockey and the first medal win since the
1976 Winter Olympics in
Innsbruck
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, when
West Germany
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won the bronze medal.
Defending champion
Canada
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secured third place and bronze, defeating
Czech Republic
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6–4 in the bronze medal game.
Venue
Qualification
Canada
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,
Russia
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,
Sweden
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,
Finland
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,
United States
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,
Czech Republic
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,
Switzerland
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, and
Slovakia
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qualified as the top eight teams in the
IIHF World Ranking in 2015.
South Korea
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qualified as host team. To field a competitive team, the South Korean government agreed to grant one American and six Canadian hockey players that were playing in Korean leagues
dual citizenship
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to make them eligible for the national team. The remaining three teams qualified from qualification tournaments.
Qualified teams
;Notes
Rosters
Match officials
14 referees and 14 linesmen were selected for the tournament.
;Referees
* Oliver Gouin
* Brett Iverson
* Jan Hribik
*
Antonín Jeřábek
* Aleksi Rantala
* Anssi Salonen
* Roman Gofman
* Konstantin Olenin
* Daniel Stricker
* Tobias Wehrli
* Jozef Kubuš
* Linus Öhlund
* Mark Lemelin
* Timothy Mayer
;Linesmen
* Nathan Vanoosten
* Vít Lederer
* Miroslav Lhotský
* Hannu Sormunen
* Sakari Suominen
* Lukas Kohlmüller
* Gleb Lazarev
* Alexander Otmakhov
* Nicolas Fluri
* Roman Kaderli
* Jimmy Dahmen
* Henrik Pihlblad
* Fraser McIntyre
* Judson Ritter
Preliminary round
''All times are local (
UTC+9).''
Tiebreak criteria
In each group, teams were ranked according to the following criteria:
#Number of points (three points for a regulation-time win, two points for an overtime or shootout win, one point for an overtime or shootout defeat, no points for a regulation-time defeat);
#In case two teams were tied on points, the result of their head-to-head match determined the ranking;
#In case three or four teams were tied on points, the following criteria applied (if, after applying a criterion, only two teams remained tied, the result of their head-to-head match determined their ranking):
##Points obtained in head-to-head matches between the teams concerned;
##Goal differential in head-to-head matches between the teams concerned;
##Number of goals scored in head-to-head matches between the teams concerned;
##If three teams remained tied, result of head-to-head matches between each of the teams concerned and the remaining team in the group (points, goal difference, goals scored);
##Place in 2017
IIHF World Ranking.
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Ranking after preliminary 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 2017
IIHF World Ranking.
Playoff round
Bracket
Qualification playoffs
The four highest-ranked teams (1D–4D) received byes 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. The losers of the qualification playoff games received a final ranking of 9 through 12 based on their preliminary round ranking.
Quarterfinals
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.
Semifinals
Bronze medal game
Gold medal game
Final ranking
Statistics
Scoring leaders
List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.
Leading goaltenders
Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, are included in this list.
''TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); SA = Shots against; GA = Goals against; GAA =
Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO =
Shutout
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s''
Source
IIHF.com
Awards
*Media All-Stars
**
Goaltender:
Vasily Koshechkin
**
Defencemen:
Maxim Noreau,
Vyacheslav Voynov
**
Forwards:
Ilya Kovalchuk
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,
Pavel Datsyuk,
Eeli Tolvanen
*Most Valuable Player: Ilya Kovalchuk
*Best players selected by the directorate:
**Best
Goaltender:
Danny aus den Birken
**Best
Defenceman
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: Vyacheslav Voynov
**Best
Forward:
Nikita Gusev
Source
IIHF.com
References
External links
Official IIHF website
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