Ice Hockey: The International Game Quiz

Answer: Sweden

The "Torpedo" is an aggressive forechecking system that sends four players into the offensive zone, which are 3 forwards and an offensive defenceman in the middle, to take pucks away from their opponents. The 5th player, the defensive defenceman stays back to protect from odd man rushes.

The "Torpedo" is something similar to what the Boston Bruins used in the 1970s, where in the Boston Garden, the Bruins would go into the other team's end and slam opponents against the boards to cough up the puck.

Answer: 1932

Before the gold medal game against Canada, the USA were 21-0-4 dating back to 1932. The reign began when they lost 2-1 in overtime to Canada, and ended up with a 4-1-1 record and the silver medal. The USA won the gold at the 1960 winter games in Squaw Valley going a perfect 7-0-0 record, and then the famous "Miracle on Ice" team went 6-0-1 at Lake Placid.

In 2002, the Americans went 4-0-1 before losing to Canada, and wound up with the silver.

Answer: Belarus

The former Republic of the Soviet Union survived the preliminary round, and then beat Sweden 4-3 on a fluke goal to face Canada. Belarus had only 1 player-name in Ruslan Salei, and embarrassed Sweden which had 21 players with NHL experience on their roster. It was one of the most lopsided match-ups in men's hockey history.

Answer: A referee

Stacey Livingston was the American referee who officiated the women's gold medal game between Canada and the USA. Before a worldwide audience, Livingston showed her blatant favouritism towards the USA, awarding them 11 powerplays which included 8 in a row compared to just 5 for Canada. Before the Olympics, the USA won 8 straight games over Canada, but Canada won the most important game of them all, winning 3-2 erasing the silver medal Canada recieved in 1998 when they lost to the USA.

The International Ice Hockey Federation usually uses referees from other countries, but the only female referees rated high enough were either American or Canadian.

Answer: Finland

Finland's only medals were silver in 1988, and the bronze in 1994, and 1998. Sweden won the gold beating Canada in the final, while the Czech Republic won gold in 1998 beating Russia. Britain won the gold in 1936 with a team made up of players born in England, but trained in Canada.

Answer: United States won the world championship

The U.S won in 1933 beating Canada's Sea Fleas 2-1 in overtime in the final game. Czechoslovakia won the World championship in 1947 for the first time with no Canadian team present that year. Then in 1949, the Czechs beat the Sudbury Wolves, which was Canada's representative to win the world championship.

The Soviets won their first championship the first time they appeared in the World Championships in 1954, and Sweden won it's first title in 1957, beating the Soviets in Moscow which also didn't have a Canadian team. Sweden won again in 1962 which did feature a Canadian team, but the Soviets were absent from the tournament.

Answer: Peter Forsberg

Peter Forsberg had 7 goals and 24 assists for Sweden, while teammate Markus Naslund had 13 goals and 11 assists. Paul Kariya had only 2 goals and 6 assists to lead Canada to it's 5th straight junior championship beating Sweden who would finish 2nd.

Answer: Pavel Bure

Bure scored 9 goals in 6 games during the tournament, which included 5 goals in the semi-final win over Finland.

Answer: Petr Svoboda

Svoboda would score the only goal of the game beating the Russians 1-0.

Answer: 34 seconds

He scored at 19:26 of the third period, and gave Canada the 6-5 victory in game 8 of the Summit Series. Canada won the series going 4-3-1.

Answer: Colorado Avalanche

Jari Kurri moved around his final two years in the NHL, after playing 10 seasons with the Edmonton Oilers scoring 475 goals, and 4 seasons and most of a 5th one with the Los Angeles Kings scoring 108 goals, including 14 goals with Los Angeles in the 1995-96 season, playing 57 games before moving to New York to join the Rangers for 14 games, scoring only 1 goal.

He would play all 84 games scoring 13 goals with the Ducks in 1996-97, before moving on to Colorado scoring 5 goals playing 70 games in the 1997-98 season.

He finished his career with 601 goals, 797 assists, for 1398 points.

Answer: False

Bobby Orr was recovering from knee surgery at that time.

Answer: 7 players

Canada had 35 players at the series, but could only dress 20 each game. Paul Henderson, Phil Esposito, Bobby Clarke, Yvan Cournoyer, Brad Park, Gary Bergman, and Ron Ellis, all played 8 games. Bill White, Pete Mahovolich, Guy Lapointe, and Pat Stapleton played 7 games. Jean Ratelle, J.P. Parise, Rod Gilbert, and Frank Mahovolich, played in 6 games. No one else on the roster played in no more than 4 games.

Answer: Slovakia

Slovakia won their first World Championship winning 4-3 over a highly favoured Russian team. Canada were eliminated in the quarter-finals, losing to Slovakia 3-2, and Sweden were also beaten by Slovakia 3-2 in the semi-final game. Sweden ended up taking the bronze medal by beating Finland 5-3.

Answer: 5 players

Out of the 23 players that played for Canada, 5 players played for Canadian teams. The 5 players were Curtis Joseph who played for Toronto, Ed Jovanovski who played for Vancouver, Jarome Iginla who played for Calgary, and Ryan Smyth and Eric Brewer who played for Edmonton.

Answer: 2 players

Brett Hull and Adam Deadmarsh were both born in Canada. Hull, who was born in Belleville, Ontario, first skated for the USA in the 1986 World Championships in Moscow. Adam Deadmarsh is from Trail, British Columbia and first played for the United States at the 1993 World Junior Championships.

Answer: A player

Kopat scored the game-winning goal that hit Tommy Salo's head in Belarus' 4-3 win over Sweden in the quarter-final game of the 2002 men's Olympic hockey tournament with 2 minutes left upsetting the Swedes.

Answer: Germany

Germany advanced by beating the heavily favoured Slovakian team 3-0. They would beat Austria 3-2, and would move on past Latvia 4-1. Germany went 3-0-0 in the tournament, but would lose the next three games to Czech Republic 6-1, Canada 3-2, and then Sweden 7-1. Germany went on to lose to the United States 5-0 in the medal round.

Answer: Mats Sundin

In 4 games Mats Sundin of Sweden scored 9 points with 5 goals and 4 assists. Brett Hull had 8 points in 6 games for the United States, and his teammate John LeClair had 7 points as well as Canada's Joe Sakic including 4 points in the gold medal game. LeClair led all scorers with 6 goals while his teammate Mike Modano led the tournament with 6 assists.

Answer: Joe Sakic, Rob Blake, and Brendan Shanahan

After the Olympics they joined 10 other players who have also joined the club. The club was split between 6 Russians and 4 Swedes, but when Canada won the gold medal in 2002, Sakic, Blake, and Shanahan became the first members from North America to join the triple gols club.

The rest of the members include Slava Fetisov, Igor Larionov, Tomas Jonsson, Peter Forsberg, Alex Mogilny, Vladamir Malakov, Hakan Loob, Mats Naslund, and Valeri Kamensky.