Ice hockey at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Ice hockey at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Venues	Bolshoy Ice Dome Shayba Arena
Dates	8–23 February 2014
Competitors	468 from 14 nations

Men's ice hockey at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Medalists
Canada Sweden Finland

Women's ice hockey at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Medalists
Canada United States Switzerland

Ice hockey at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Tournament
men  women
Qualification
men  women
Rosters
men  women

The ice hockey competitions of the 2014 Winter Olympics were played at two venues, located 300 meters from each other, within the Olympic Park in Sochi, Russia. The Bolshoy Ice Dome, which seats 12,000, resembles a Fabergé egg. The Shayba Arena, seating 7,000, is a moveable structure that will be used after the games in another Russian city. Both venues are international sized (60 meters by 30 meters).

Twelve teams competed in the men's tournament and eight teams in the women's. The tournaments began 8 February 2014. The women's concluded on 20 February and the men's on 23 February.

Canada went undefeated throughout both the men and women's tournaments and repeated as gold medalists, after winning both tournaments on home soil in Vancouver.

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	2	0	0	2
2	Sweden	0	1	0	1
	United States	0	1	0	1
3	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Total		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's	Canada (CAN) Jamie Benn Patrice Bergeron Jay Bouwmeester Jeff Carter Sidney Crosby Drew Doughty Matt Duchene Ryan Getzlaf Dan Hamhuis Duncan Keith Chris Kunitz Roberto Luongo Patrick Marleau Rick Nash Corey Perry Alex Pietrangelo Carey Price Patrick Sharp Mike Smith Martin St. Louis P. K. Subban John Tavares Jonathan Toews Marc-Édouard Vlasic Shea Weber	Sweden (SWE) Daniel Alfredsson Nicklas Bäckström Patrik Berglund Alexander Edler Oliver Ekman-Larsson Jhonas Enroth Jimmie Ericsson Jonathan Ericsson Loui Eriksson Jonas Gustavsson Carl Hagelin Niklas Hjalmarsson Marcus Johansson Erik Karlsson Niklas Kronwall Marcus Krüger Gabriel Landeskog Henrik Lundqvist Gustav Nyquist Johnny Oduya Daniel Sedin Jakob Silfverberg Alexander Steen Henrik Tallinder Henrik Zetterberg	Finland (FIN) Juhamatti Aaltonen Aleksander Barkov Mikael Granlund Juuso Hietanen Jarkko Immonen Jussi Jokinen Olli Jokinen Leo Komarov Sami Lepistö Petri Kontiola Lauri Korpikoski Lasse Kukkonen Jori Lehterä Kari Lehtonen Olli Määttä Antti Niemi Antti Pihlström Tuukka Rask Tuomo Ruutu Sakari Salminen Sami Salo Teemu Selänne Kimmo Timonen Ossi Väänänen Sami Vatanen
Women's	Canada (CAN) Meghan Agosta-Marciano Gillian Apps Mélodie Daoust Laura Fortino Jayna Hefford Haley Irwin Brianne Jenner Rebecca Johnston Charline Labonté Geneviève Lacasse Jocelyne Larocque Meaghan Mikkelson Caroline Ouellette Marie-Philip Poulin Lauriane Rougeau Natalie Spooner Shannon Szabados Jenn Wakefield Catherine Ward Tara Watchorn Hayley Wickenheiser	United States (USA) Kacey Bellamy Megan Bozek Alexandra Carpenter Julie Chu Kendall Coyne Brianna Decker Meghan Duggan Lyndsey Fry Amanda Kessel Hilary Knight Jocelyne Lamoureux Monique Lamoureux Gisele Marvin Brianne McLaughlin Michelle Picard Josephine Pucci Molly Schaus Anne Schleper Kelli Stack Lee Stecklein Jessie Vetter	Switzerland (SUI) Janine Alder Livia Altmann Sophie Anthamatten Laura Benz Sara Benz Nicole Bullo Romy Eggimann Sarah Forster Angela Frautschi Jessica Lutz Julia Marty Stefanie Marty Alina Müller Katrin Nabholz Evelina Raselli Florence Schelling Lara Stalder Phoebe Stanz Anja Stiefel Nina Waidacher

Teemu Selanne, at age 43 years and 234 days, became the oldest ice hockey player to win an Olympic medal, by being part of Team Finland's bronze. He also holds the Olympic record for total ice hockey points, upping it to 43. He also shares the record for most appearances in ice hockey at the Olympics, with 2014 being his 6th Olympics.

In a drug test at the Olympics, Nicklas Bäckström's A-sample indicated doping pseudoephedrine and he was prevented from playing in the final. The B-sample, analyzed after the final, also showed values above the allowed limit.

Men's tournament

Main article: Ice hockey at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament

The tournament featured 12 countries, 9 qualifying through the IIHF World Ranking, and 3 through subsequent qualifying tournaments. The format was the same as 2010; there were three groups of 4 to determine seeding, with four rounds of elimination games. Each group winner received a bye into the second round, along with the best second place team while the remaining eight teams played a qualification game. Each quarter-final winner advanced to the semis with the winners playing for the gold medal, and the losers the bronze. The NHL has agreed to allow its players to participate in the tournament.

Qualification

Main article: Ice hockey at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's qualification

Qualification for the men's tournament at the 2014 Winter Olympics was determined by the IIHF World Ranking following the 2012 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships. The top nine teams in the World Ranking received automatic berths into the Olympics, while all other teams had an opportunity to qualify for the remaining three spots in the Olympics.

Participating nations

The twelve nations played in three pools.

Group A	Group B	Group C
Russia Slovakia United States Slovenia	Finland Canada Norway Austria	Czech Republic Sweden Switzerland Latvia

Women's tournament

Main article: Ice hockey at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament

The women's tournament ran from 8 to 20 February. Eight nations contested the gold. A new format was introduced, with the top 4 ranked teams in group A, with the next four in group B. The bottom two group A teams played the top 2 teams in group B in the quarter finals, where the winners played either the first or second place team in group A.

Qualification

Main article: Ice hockey at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's qualification

Qualification for the women's tournament at the 2014 Winter Olympics was determined by the IIHF World Ranking following the 2012 IIHF Women's World Championships. The top five teams in the World Ranking received automatic berths into the Olympics, Russia gained direct entry by being host and all other teams had an opportunity to qualify for the remaining two spots in the Olympics.

Participating nations

The eight nations played in two pools.

Group A	Group B
Canada Finland Switzerland United States	Russia Sweden Germany Japan

External links

• Sochi in the final stretch, a review of the venues at IIHF.com.