Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics

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At the 1980 Winter Olympics hosted in Lake Placid, New York, one Ice Hockey event was held: Men's Ice Hockey.

Contents 1 Background 2 Highlights 3 Medalists 4 Blue Division 5 Red Division 6 Medal Round 7 Leading scorers 8 Hat Tricks 9 Final ranking 10 External links

[edit] Background

These Olympics came at a difficult time for United States-USSR relations, as they were deep in the Cold War. Only months before the games began, the USSR invaded Afghanistan, and there was a possibility that the strong Soviet team might not show. However, they competed in the Lake Placid games, and it was the Americans that boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

The Soviets had won every Winter Olympics ice hockey tournament since the 1960 Winter Olympics, were well-seasoned and had been playing together for many years (though they lacked young players). The Americans were a collection of college students (some from rival schools such as the University of Minnesota and Boston University) with little history of playing together.

Three days before the Olympics, Coach Herb Brooks scheduled an exhibition game at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The Americans lost 10 - 3, and Jack O'Callahan (defense) tore a ligament, though he returned before the medal round. Coach Brooks gave only a few interviews after the game.

Despite setbacks, Coach Brooks managed to unify his players, train them for a year (the usual training for World Championships took a few weeks at that time) and lead them to victory.

[edit] Highlights

The USA vs USSR game, called the "Miracle on Ice" in the United States, is the best-remembered game of the tournament and the best-remembered international hockey game in the United States. It was the USA's penultimate game of the tournament's round-robin medal round. The USA's final game, against Finland, was the game which won the gold medal for the United States. Finland finished 4th in the overall standings. One of the better upsets is not remembered and/or known and that is Poland defeating Finland 5-4 in the first game for both teams. Poland was outshot 49-25 and almost lost the game after leading 5-2, giving up a goal at 36:57 to Mikko Leinonen and 46:05 to Reijo Leppanen. But Polish goalie Henryk Wojtynek held on for the win. This may not be remembered because Poland did not advance to the medal round or the 5th place game.

[edit] Medalists

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
United States Jim Craig Jack O'Callahan Bill Baker Ken Morrow Mike Ramsey Bob Suter Dave Christian Dave Silk Steve Janaszak Mark Johnson Rob McClanahan John Harrington Mark Pavelich Buzz Schneider Steve Christoff Neal Broten Mike Eruzione Eric Strobel Mark Wells Phil Verchota	USSR Helmuts Balderis Zinetula Bilyaletdinov Viacheslav Fetisov Aleksandr Golikov Alexei Kasatonov Valery Kharlamov Vladimir Krutov Yuri Lebedev Sergei Makarov Aleksandr Maltsev Boris Mikhailov Vladimir Myshkin Vasili Pervukhin Vladimir Petrov Aleksandr Skvortsov Sergei Starikov Valeri Vasiliev Vladislav Tretiak Viktor Zhlutkov	Sweden Pelle Lindbergh William Löfquist Tomas Jonsson Sture Andersson Ulf Weinstock Jan Eriksson Tommy Samuelsson Mats Waltin Thomas Eriksson Per Lundquist Mats Aahlberg Lars Håkan Eriksson Mats Näslund Lennart Norberg Bengt Lundholm Leif Holmgren Bo Berglund Dan Söderström Lars Molin

[edit] Blue Division

Top two teams (shaded ones) advanced to the medal round.

Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Sweden	5	4	0	1	26	7	9
United States	5	4	0	1	25	10	9
Czechoslovakia	5	3	2	0	34	16	6
Romania	5	1	3	1	13	29	3
West Germany	5	1	4	0	21	30	2
Norway	5	0	4	1	9	36	1

• February 12
  • Czechoslovakia 11-0 Norway
  • Romania 6-4 West Germany
  • Sweden 2-2 USA
• February 14
  • Romania 0-8 Sweden
  • Norway 4-10 West Germany
  • USA 7-3 Czechoslovakia
• February 16
  • USA 5-1 Norway
  • Romania 2-7 Czechoslovakia
  • Sweden 5-2 West Germany
• February 18
  • Norway 1-7 Sweden
  • West Germany 3-11 Czechoslovakia
  • USA 7-2 Romania
• February 20
  • Norway 3-3 Romania
  • Czechoslovakia 2-4 Sweden
  • West Germany 2-4 USA

[edit] Red Division

Top two teams (shaded ones) advanced to the medal round.

Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
USSR	5	5	0	0	51	11	10
Finland	5	3	2	0	26	18	6
Canada	5	3	2	0	28	12	6
Poland	5	2	3	0	15	23	4
Netherlands	5	1	3	1	16	43	3
Japan	5	0	4	1	7	36	1

• February 12:
  • Netherlands 1-10 Canada
  • Poland 5-4 Finland
• February 14:
  • Japan 0-16 USSR
  • Netherlands 4-17 USSR
  • Poland 1-5 Canada
• February 16
  • Japan 3-6 Finland
  • Japan 3-3 Netherlands
  • USSR 8-1 Poland
  • Canada 3-4 Finland
• February 18
  • Canada 6-0 Japan
  • Netherlands 5-3 Poland
  • Finland 2-4 USSR
• February 20
  • Poland 5-1 Japan
  • USSR 6-4 Canada
  • Finland 10-3 Netherlands

[edit] Medal Round

The top two teams from each group play the top two teams from the other group once. Points from previous games against their own group carry over, excluding teams who failed to make the medal round. First place team wins gold, second silver and third bronze.

Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
United States	3	2	0	1	10	7	5
USSR	3	2	1	0	16	8	4
Sweden	3	0	1	2	7	14	2
Finland	3	0	2	1	7	11	1

• February 22
  • USA 4-3 USSR (see Miracle on Ice)
  • Finland 3-3 Sweden
• February 24:
  • Sweden 2-9 USSR
  • USA 4-2 Finland

Carried over group matches:

• February 12 Sweden 2-2 USA
• February 18 Finland 2-4 USSR

5th place game

• February 22 Czechoslovakia 6-1 Canada

[edit] Leading scorers

Rk	Team	GP	G	A	Pts
1	Milan Novy	6	7	8	15
2	Peter Stastny	6	7	7	14
3	Jaroslav Pouzar	6	8	5	13
4	Alexander Golikov	7	7	6	13
5	Jukka Porvari	7	7	4	11
6	Boris Mikhailov	7	6	5	11
6	Vladimir Krutov	7	6	5	11
8	Sergei Makarov	7	5	6	11
8	Marian Stastny	6	5	6	11
8	Mark Johnson	7	5	6	11

[edit] Hat Tricks

3 GOALS

Ken Berry, Canada vs.Netherlands

Doru Tureanu, Romania vs.West Germany

Alexander Golikov, Soviet Union vs.Japan

Vladimir Krutov, Soviet Union vs.Netherlands

Yuri Lebedev, Soviet Union vs.Netherlands

Helmut Balderis, Soviet Union vs.Poland

Mats Aalberg, Sweden vs.Norway

Jack de Heer, Netherlands vs. Poland

Peter Stastny, Czechoslovakia vs.West Germany

Jaroslav Pouzar, Czechoslovakia vs.West Germany

Milan Novy, Czechoslovakia vs.West Germany

[edit] Final ranking

1. United States
2. USSR
3. Sweden
4. Finland
5. Czechoslovakia
6. Canada
7. Poland
8. Netherlands
9. Romania
10. West Germany
11. Norway
12. Japan

[edit] External links

• http://www.aafla.com/6oic/OfficialReports/1980/orw1980v2.pdf

Ice hockey at the Olympic Games
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Events at the 1980 Winter Olympics (Lake Placid)
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