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.

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	USSR
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.

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		Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	USSR	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

USSR 5-0 Canada
USSR 3-2 Sweden
USSR 8-0 Finland
USSR 10-2 USA
USSR 9-1 West Germany
USSR 9-0 East Germany
Czechoslovakia 5-4 USSR
Czechoslovakia 2-2 Sweden
Czechoslovakia 4-3 Finland
Czechoslovakia 5-1 USA
Czechoslovakia 5-1 West Germany
Czechoslovakia 10-3 East Germany
Canada 3-2 Czechoslovakia
Canada 3-0 Sweden
Canada 3-2 USA
Canada 6-1 West Germany
Canada 11-0 East Germany
Sweden 5-1 Finland
Sweden 4-3 USA
Sweden 5-4 West Germany
Sweden 5-2 East Germany
Finland 5-2 Canada
Finland 1-1 USA
Finland 4-1 West Germany
Finland 3-2 East Germany
USA 8-1 West Germany
USA 6-4 East Germany
West Germany 4-2 East Germany

[edit] Group B

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

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

Yugoslavia 5-1 Japan
Yugoslavia 3-2 Norway
Yugoslavia 9-5 Romania
Yugoslavia 6-0 Austria
Yugoslavia 10-1 France
Japan 4-0 Norway
Japan 5-4 Romania
Japan 11-1 Austria
Japan 6-2 France
Norway 4-3 Romania
Norway 5-4 Austria
Norway 4-1 France
Romania 3-2 Austria
Romania 7-3 France
Austria 5-2 France

[edit] Leading scorers

Rk		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	Josef Golonka	7	4	6	10
6	Fran Huck	7	4	5	9
7	Jan Hrbaty	7	2	7	9
8	Marshall Johnston	7	2	6	8
8	Jack Morrison	7	2	6	8
10	Vaclav Nedomansky	7	5	2	7