Ice hockey at the 1968 Winter Olympics

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At the 1968 Winter Olympics held in Grenoble, France, one Ice Hockey event was held: men's Ice Hockey. This tournament also counted as IIHF World Championship and IIHF European Championship. Games were held at the Palais des Sports.

Contents 1 Highlights 2 Medalists 3 Qualification matches 4 Group A 5 Group B 6 Leading scorers 7 Final ranking

[edit] Highlights

This was the last IIHF tournament where three titles (Olympic, World and European) were contested.

In their penultimate match of the tournament, the USSR team lost to the Czechoslovakian team, which gave a tie-breaking advantage to the latter as each team had a record of 5 wins, 1 loss (10 points) with one game remaining. Yet the USSR team was also tied with Canada and would play the Canadians for the final game of the tournament. For teams finishing with identical records, it is games between the tied teams that determines placings. In their final matches of the tournament, Sweden tied with Czechoslovakia, while the USSR won its game that day against Canada, and the triple championship.

To win the championship, Czechoslovakia needed to win its game against Sweden and for Canada to lose or tie its match with USSR. Had Canada won against USSR and Czechoslovakia won its game over Sweden, Canada would have tied Czechoslovakia with 12 points but prevailed in the tie breaker to win the championship.

[edit] Medalists

Pos	Team
Gold	Soviet Union
Silver	Czechoslovakia
Bronze	Canada

[edit] Qualification matches

Winners (in bold) qualify for the Group A to play for 1st-8th places. Teams, which lost their qualification matches, played in Group B for 9th-14th places.

• February 4
  • Finland 11-2 Yugoslavia
  • GDR 3-1 Norway
  • West Germany 7-0 Romania

[edit] Group A

First place team wins gold, second silver and third bronze.

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	Soviet Union	7	6	1	0	48	10	12
2	Czechoslovakia	7	5	1	1	33	17	11
3	Canada	7	5	2	0	28	15	10
4	Sweden	7	4	2	1	23	18	9
5	Finland	7	3	3	1	17	23	7
6	United States	7	2	4	1	23	28	5
7	West Germany	7	1	6	0	13	39	2
8	East Germany	7	0	7	0	13	48	0

• February 6
  • USSR 8-0 Finland
  • Czechoslovakia 5-1 USA
  • Canada 6-1 West Germany

• February 7
  • Sweden 4-3 USA
  • USSR 9-0 East Germany

• February 8
  • Czechoslovakia 5-1 West Germany
  • Finland 5-2 Canada

• February 9
  • Sweden 5-4 West Germany
  • USSR 10-2 USA
  • Canada 11-0 East Germany

• February 10
  • Czechoslovakia 4-3 Finland
  • Sweden 5-2 East Germany

• February 11
  • Canada 3-2 USA
  • USSR 9-1 West Germany

• February 12
  • Czechoslovakia 10-3 East Germany
  • Sweden 5-1 Finland
  • USA 8-1 West Germany

• February 13
  • USSR 3-2 Sweden
  • Canada 3-2 Czechoslovakia

• February 14
  • Finland 3-2 East Germany

• February 15
  • USA 6-4 East Germany
  • Canada 3-0 Sweden
  • Czechoslovakia 5-4 USSR

• February 16
  • Finland 4-1 West Germany

• February 17
  • Czechoslovakia 2-2 Sweden
  • Finland 1-1 USA
  • West Germany 4-2 East Germany
  • USSR 5-0 Canada

[edit] Group B

Teams in this group play for 9th-14th places.

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
9	Yugoslavia	5	5	0	0	33	9	10
10	Japan	5	4	1	0	27	12	8
11	Norway	5	3	2	0	15	15	6
12	Romania	5	2	3	0	22	23	4
13	Austria	5	1	4	0	12	27	2
14	France	5	0	5	0	9	32	0

• February 7
  • Yugoslavia 5-1 Japan
  • Romania 3-2 Austria

• February 8
  • France 1-4 Norway

• February 9
  • Yugoslavia 6-0 Austria
  • France 3-7 Romania

• February 10
  • Japan 4-0 Norway

• February 11
  • France 2-5 Austria

• February 12
  • Japan 5-4 Romania
  • Norway 5-4 Austria

• February 13
  • France 1-10 Yugoslavia

• February 14
  • Norway 4-3 Romania

• February 15
  • Japan 11-1 Austria

• February 16
  • Yugoslavia 9-5 Romania

• February 17
  • Yugoslavia 3-2 Norway
  • France 2-6 Japan

[edit] Leading scorers

Rk	Team	GP	G	A	Pts
1	Anatoli Firsov	7	12	4	16
2	Viktor Polupanov	7	6	6	12
2	Viacheslav Starsinov	7	6	6	12
4	Vladimir Vikulov	7	2	10	12
5	Jozef Golonka	7	4	6	10
6	Fran Huck	7	4	5	9
7	Jan Hrbatý	7	2	7	9
8	Marshall Johnston	7	2	6	8
8	Jack Morrison	7	2	6	8
10	Václav Nedomanský	7	5	2	7

[edit] Final ranking

1.  Soviet Union
2.  Czechoslovakia
3.  Canada
4.  Sweden
5.  Finland
6.  United States
7.  West Germany
8.  East Germany
9.  Yugoslavia
10.  Japan
11.  Norway
12.  Romania
13.  Austria
14.  France

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