{"history":[],"article":{"id":"35ee79d6-8528-4918-9cbc-99f5315ca937","title":"Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament","slug":"ice-hockey-at-the-2010-winter-olympics-men-s-tournament","content":":::summary\n![A round-robin game between the USA and Canada](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/USAvCanada2010WinterOlympicsprelim.jpg)\n**Tourney Name:** Winter Olympics \n**Year:** 2010 \n**Size:** 250 \n**Country:** Canada \n**Dates:** February 16–28 \n**Num Teams:** 12 \n**Venues:** [Canada Hockey Place](https://bliptext.com/articles/rogers-arena) [UBC Thunderbird Arena](https://bliptext.com/articles/thunderbird-sports-centre) \n**Type:** ih \n**Winners:** CAN \n**Count:** 8 \n**Second:** USA \n**Third:** FIN \n**Fourth:** SVK \n**Games:** 30 \n**Scoring Leader:** 🇸🇰 [Pavol Demitra](https://bliptext.com/articles/pavol-demitra) \n**Points:** 10 \n**Mvp:** 🇺🇸 [Ryan Miller](https://bliptext.com/articles/ryan-miller) \n**Prevseason:** [2006](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey-at-the-2006-winter-olympics-men-s-tournament) \n**Nextseason:** [2014](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey-at-the-2014-winter-olympics-men-s-tournament) \n:::\n\n# \nThe **men's tournament in [ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey-at-the-2010-winter-olympics)** was held in [Vancouver](https://bliptext.com/articles/vancouver), [British Columbia](https://bliptext.com/articles/british-columbia), Canada, from February 16 to February 28, 2010.\nGames were hosted at two venues – [Canada Hockey Place](https://bliptext.com/articles/canada-hockey-place) (renamed from \"General Motors Place\" for the Olympics because IOC rules disallowed host venues to be named after non-Olympic sponsors) and [UBC Thunderbird Arena](https://bliptext.com/articles/thunderbird-sports-centre).\nThese Olympics were the first to take place in a city with a [National Hockey League](https://bliptext.com/articles/national-hockey-league) team since the NHL players were introduced in 1998, which meant players on the [Vancouver Canucks](https://bliptext.com/articles/vancouver-canucks) who were competing in the Olympics were playing in their home arena: [Roberto Luongo](https://bliptext.com/articles/roberto-luongo) for Canada, [Ryan Kesler](https://bliptext.com/articles/ryan-kesler) for the United States, [Pavol Demitra](https://bliptext.com/articles/pavol-demitra) for Slovakia, [Sami Salo](https://bliptext.com/articles/sami-salo) for Finland, [Christian Ehrhoff](https://bliptext.com/articles/christian-ehrhoff) for Germany, and [Daniel](https://bliptext.com/articles/daniel-sedin) and [Henrik Sedin](https://bliptext.com/articles/henrik-sedin) for Sweden.\nTeams from twelve national hockey associations competed, [seeded](https://bliptext.com/articles/seed-sports) into three groups for the preliminary round.\nThe tournament consisted of 30 games: 18 in the preliminary round (teams played the other teams in their own group); 4 qualification playoff games; 4 quarterfinal games; 2 semifinal games; 1 bronze medal game; and 1 gold medal game.\nDuring the tournament, [Teemu Selänne](https://bliptext.com/articles/teemu-sel-nne) of Finland became the all-time leader for points scored in the Olympics.\nHe notched an assist in his second game of the tournament for 37 career points, surpassing [Valeri Kharlamov](https://bliptext.com/articles/valeri-kharlamov) of the Soviet Union, [Vlastimil Bubník](https://bliptext.com/articles/vlastimil-bubn-k) of Czechoslovakia, and [Harry Watson](https://bliptext.com/articles/harry-watson-ice-hockey-b-1898) of Canada.\nSweden's [goaltender](https://bliptext.com/articles/goaltender) [Henrik Lundqvist](https://bliptext.com/articles/henrik-lundqvist) set a modern-day Olympic [shutout](https://bliptext.com/articles/shutouts-in-baseball) streak record of 172 minutes and 34 seconds, continuous from the final of the gold medal game of the [2006 Olympics](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey-at-the-2006-winter-olympics-men-s-tournament) until Sweden's quarterfinal against Slovakia.\nThe tournament was won by Canada for the record eighth time (one more than the Soviet Union), which defeated the United States in overtime in the gold medal game.\n\n# Qualification\nBelarus, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States qualified as the top nine teams in the [IIHF World Ranking](https://bliptext.com/articles/iihf-world-ranking).\nGermany, Latvia and Norway qualified via the qualification tournament for teams ranked 10th through 30th.\n\n# Rosters\n\n# Preliminary round\nPoints to each team were awarded as follows:\nIf two or more teams were tied in points, the following tiebreaker criteria were used:\nIf a criterion left only two teams tied, then those teams were ranked based on their head-to-head result.\n\n## Group A\n

\nAll times are local ([UTC−8](https://bliptext.com/articles/utc-8)).\n

\n\n## Group B\n

\nAll times are local ([UTC−8](https://bliptext.com/articles/utc-8)).\n

\n\n## Group C\n

\nAll times are local ([UTC−8](https://bliptext.com/articles/utc-8)).\n

\n\n## Ranking after preliminary round\n\n# Playoff round\nFollowing the completion of the preliminary round, all teams were ranked 1D through 12D.\nTo determine this ranking, the following criteria were used in the order presented:\n\n## Bracket\n\n## Qualification playoffs\nThe top four ranked teams (1D–4D) received byes to and were deemed the home team in the quarterfinals as they were seeded to advance, with the remaining eight teams (5D–12D) playing qualification playoff games as follows:\nIf the score remained even after regulation, a 10-minute overtime period was played.\nIf neither team scored, a shoot out of three rounds of [penalty shots](https://bliptext.com/articles/penalty-shot) decided the winner.\nThe four winners of these qualification playoff games advanced to the quarterfinal round, while the losers of the qualification playoff games received a final ranking of 9 through 12 based on their preliminary round ranking.\nAll times are local ([UTC−8](https://bliptext.com/articles/utc-8))\n

\n\n## Quarterfinals\nTeams seeded D1 to D4 were the home teams.\nIf the teams were tied after 60 minutes of regulation, a 10-minute overtime period decided the winner immediately upon the next goal.\nIf the game remained tied after the overtime period, a [penalty shot](https://bliptext.com/articles/penalty-shot) competition determined the winning team.\nFollowing the quarterfinal games, the winning teams were re-ranked F1 through F4, with the winner of 1D vs. E4 re-ranked as F1, the winner of 2D vs. E3 re-ranked as F2, the winner of 3D vs. E2 re-ranked as F3, and the winner of 4D vs. E1 re-ranked as F4.\nThe losers of the quarterfinal round games received a final ranking of 5 through 8 based on their preliminary round ranking.\nAll times are local ([UTC−8](https://bliptext.com/articles/utc-8)).\n

\n\n## Semifinals\nAll times are local ([UTC−8](https://bliptext.com/articles/utc-8)).\n

\n\n## Bronze medal game\nAll times are local ([UTC−8](https://bliptext.com/articles/utc-8)).\n

\n# [The Finnish team celebrating after winning the bronze medal | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Finlandhockeybronze2010WinterOlympics.jpg]\n\n## Gold medal game\nAll times are local ([UTC−8](https://bliptext.com/articles/utc-8)).\n

\nThe gold medal game was a rematch of the men's tournament in [ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey-at-the-2002-winter-olympics) held in [Salt Lake City](https://bliptext.com/articles/salt-lake-city), United States.\nIn addition, [Chris Pronger](https://bliptext.com/articles/chris-pronger), [Scott Niedermayer](https://bliptext.com/articles/scott-niedermayer), [Martin Brodeur](https://bliptext.com/articles/martin-brodeur) and [Jarome Iginla](https://bliptext.com/articles/jarome-iginla) of [Team Canada](https://bliptext.com/articles/2009-10-canada-men-s-national-ice-hockey-team) were returnees from the 2002 gold-winning squad and collected their second gold medal.\n[Brian Rafalski](https://bliptext.com/articles/brian-rafalski) and [Chris Drury](https://bliptext.com/articles/chris-drury) were the only players remaining from USA's 2002 silver squad.\nThe final score was a 3–2 win for Team Canada.\nGoal scorers for Canada were [Jonathan Toews](https://bliptext.com/articles/jonathan-toews), [Corey Perry](https://bliptext.com/articles/corey-perry) and [Sidney Crosby](https://bliptext.com/articles/sidney-crosby), with the winning goal scored in overtime.\nFor USA, the goal scorers were [Ryan Kesler](https://bliptext.com/articles/ryan-kesler) and [Zach Parise](https://bliptext.com/articles/zach-parise), the latter tying the game with 25 seconds left, forcing it to go into [sudden death](https://bliptext.com/articles/sudden-death-sport).\nSidney Crosby scored the game-winning goal off a pass from Jarome Iginla, seven minutes and forty seconds into overtime for Canada, gaining victory over the United States.\nThe puck has been sent to the [Hockey Hall of Fame](https://bliptext.com/articles/hockey-hall-of-fame) in Toronto; in Canadian media, Crosby's goal has been compared in significance to the ones scored by [Paul Henderson](https://bliptext.com/articles/paul-henderson) in the [1972 Summit Series](https://bliptext.com/articles/1972-summit-series) and [Mario Lemieux](https://bliptext.com/articles/mario-lemieux) in the [1987 Canada Cup](https://bliptext.com/articles/1987-canada-cup).\nThe referees for the final were [Bill McCreary](https://bliptext.com/articles/bill-mccreary-referee) (Canada) and [Dan O'Halloran](https://bliptext.com/articles/dan-o-halloran) (Canada), while the linesmen were [Stefan Fonselius](https://bliptext.com/articles/stefan-fonselius) (Finland) and [Jean Morin](https://bliptext.com/articles/jean-morin-ice-hockey) (Canada).\nThe gold medal game was the last competitive event at the Olympics before the [closing ceremony](https://bliptext.com/articles/2010-winter-olympics-closing-ceremony).\n# [Crowds take to the streets of Vancouver to celebrate Canada's win in the gold medal game | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Celebrating///hockey///gold///in///Vancouver///%2819%29.jpg]\n# [The Canadian team celebrating after winning the gold medal | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Canada2010WinterOlympicsOTcelebration.jpg]\n\n### Game summary\n\n### Television ratings\nThe gold medal game drew a big hockey audience in both Canada and the United States.\nIn Canada, the game drew an average 16.6 million viewers while 26.5 million Canadians watched at least part of the game.\n[Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium](https://bliptext.com/articles/canada-s-olympic-broadcast-media-consortium) claims that 22 million people – or two thirds of the Canadian population – were watching the gold medal game when Sidney Crosby scored in overtime, making the game the most-watched television broadcast in Canadian history.\nHowever, a new ratings system intended to better track out-of-home viewership was only implemented in August 2009, making it difficult to accurately compare these results with ratings prior to that date – specifically, the [2002 Canada–USA gold medal game](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey-at-the-2002-winter-olympics) in Salt Lake City, the record holder under the previous system.\nThere was some speculation that the final game of the 1972 [Summit Series](https://bliptext.com/articles/summit-series) had as many as 18 million viewers, although recently recovered [Nielsen ratings](https://bliptext.com/articles/nielsen-ratings) archives indicate that only 4.255 million Canadians watched that game live.\nIn the United States, [NBC](https://bliptext.com/articles/olympics-on-nbc) said that the game was the most-watched hockey game in the U.S. in 30 years, drawing 27.6 million, the largest since the United States–Finland game that decided the gold medal at the [1980 Winter Olympics](https://bliptext.com/articles/1980-winter-olympics).\n\n# Final rankings\nThe final standings of the tournament according to the [IIHF](https://bliptext.com/articles/international-ice-hockey-federation):\n\n# Statistics\n\n## Average age\nTeam Finland was the oldest team in the tournament, averaging 31 years and 5 months.\nTeam USA was the youngest team in the tournament, averaging 27 years and 2 months.\nGold medalists team Canada averaged 28 years and 2 months.\nTournament average was 29 years.\n\n## Leading scorers\nRankings based upon points.\n\n## Leading goaltenders\nGoalkeepers with 40% or more of their team's total minutes.\n**[Shutout](https://bliptext.com/articles/shutout) posters**\n\n# Awards\nUnited States' [Ryan Miller](https://bliptext.com/articles/ryan-miller) was named the [most valuable player](https://bliptext.com/articles/most-valuable-player) and received the Directorate Award for best goaltender of the tournament.\nDirectorate Awards also went to [Brian Rafalski](https://bliptext.com/articles/brian-rafalski) (United States) for best defenceman, and to [Jonathan Toews](https://bliptext.com/articles/jonathan-toews) (Canada) for best forward.\nThe tournament all-star team was voted on by the international media at the conclusion of the event.\nThe following players were named:\nToews, along with [Brent Seabrook](https://bliptext.com/articles/brent-seabrook) and [Duncan Keith](https://bliptext.com/articles/duncan-keith) would become the fourth, fifth and sixth players to win both Olympic gold medal and Stanley Cup (with the [Chicago Blackhawks](https://bliptext.com/articles/chicago-blackhawks)) in the same year, following [Ken Morrow](https://bliptext.com/articles/ken-morrow) 1980, and [Steve Yzerman](https://bliptext.com/articles/steve-yzerman) and [Brendan Shanahan](https://bliptext.com/articles/brendan-shanahan) (2002).\n[Patrick Kane](https://bliptext.com/articles/patrick-kane) would become the fourth player to win both Olympic silver medal and Stanley Cup in the same year, following Red Wings [Sergei Fedorov](https://bliptext.com/articles/sergei-fedorov) in 1998, and [Chris Chelios](https://bliptext.com/articles/chris-chelios) and [Brett Hull](https://bliptext.com/articles/brett-hull) in 2002.\n\n## Triple Gold Club\nThe [Triple Gold Club](https://bliptext.com/articles/triple-gold-club), made up of individuals who have won the Stanley Cup plus gold medals at the Olympics and [World Championships](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey-world-championships), gained two new members:\nLater the same season, Team Canada centre [Jonathan Toews](https://bliptext.com/articles/jonathan-toews) would go on to become the 24th and youngest player in the Triple Gold Club, following up his Olympic gold medal with the Stanley Cup with the [Chicago Blackhawks](https://bliptext.com/articles/chicago-blackhawks) just four months after winning Olympic gold.\nHe had previously won the World Championships in [2007](https://bliptext.com/articles/2007-iihf-world-championship).\n\n# Officials\nGames were primarily officiated by NHL referees, a stipulation by the NHL if most Olympic players are NHLers, according to the [IIHF](https://bliptext.com/articles/international-ice-hockey-federation) (not NHL) rules.","current_revision":null,"created_by":"kACnuQmH5k9Nr5VNVEpVeg7XpvUmMctD","created_at":"2025-01-26T11:03:13.182Z","updated_at":"2025-01-26T11:03:13.182Z","search_vector":"'2010':5 'hockey':2 'ice':1 'men':8 'olymp':7 'tournament':10 'winter':6","search_content":" \n \n**Tourney Name:** Winter Olympics \n**Year:** 2010 \n**Size:** 250 \n**Country:** Canada \n**Dates:** February 16–28 \n**Num Teams:** 12 \n**Venues:** [Canada Hockey Place](https://bliptext.com/articles/rogers-arena) [UBC Thunderbird Arena](https://bliptext.com/articles/thunderbird-sports-centre) \n**Type:** ih \n**Winners:** CAN \n**Count:** 8 \n**Second:** USA \n**Third:** FIN \n**Fourth:** SVK \n**Games:** 30 \n**Scoring Leader:** 🇸🇰 [Pavol Demitra](https://bliptext.com/articles/pavol-demitra) \n**Points:** 10 \n**Mvp:** 🇺🇸 [Ryan Miller](https://bliptext.com/articles/ryan-miller) \n**Prevseason:** [2006](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey-at-the-2006-winter-olympics-men-s-tournament) \n**Nextseason:** [2014](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey-at-the-2014-winter-olympics-men-s-tournament) \n \n\n# \nThe **men's tournament in [ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey-at-the-2010-winter-olympics)** was held in [Vancouver](https://bliptext.com/articles/vancouver), [British Columbia](https://bliptext.com/articles/british-columbia), Canada, from February 16 to February 28, 2010.\nGames were hosted at two venues – [Canada Hockey Place](https://bliptext.com/articles/canada-hockey-place) (renamed from \"General Motors Place\" for the Olympics because IOC rules disallowed host venues to be named after non-Olympic sponsors) and [UBC Thunderbird Arena](https://bliptext.com/articles/thunderbird-sports-centre).\nThese Olympics were the first to take place in a city with a [National Hockey League](https://bliptext.com/articles/national-hockey-league) team since the NHL players were introduced in 1998, which meant players on the [Vancouver Canucks](https://bliptext.com/articles/vancouver-canucks) who were competing in the Olympics were playing in their home arena: [Roberto Luongo](https://bliptext.com/articles/roberto-luongo) for Canada, [Ryan Kesler](https://bliptext.com/articles/ryan-kesler) for the United States, [Pavol Demitra](https://bliptext.com/articles/pavol-demitra) for Slovakia, [Sami Salo](https://bliptext.com/articles/sami-salo) for Finland, [Christian Ehrhoff](https://bliptext.com/articles/christian-ehrhoff) for Germany, and [Daniel](https://bliptext.com/articles/daniel-sedin) and [Henrik Sedin](https://bliptext.com/articles/henrik-sedin) for Sweden.\nTeams from twelve national hockey associations competed, [seeded](https://bliptext.com/articles/seed-sports) into three groups for the preliminary round.\nThe tournament consisted of 30 games: 18 in the preliminary round (teams played the other teams in their own group); 4 qualification playoff games; 4 quarterfinal games; 2 semifinal games; 1 bronze medal game; and 1 gold medal game.\nDuring the tournament, [Teemu Selänne](https://bliptext.com/articles/teemu-sel-nne) of Finland became the all-time leader for points scored in the Olympics.\nHe notched an assist in his second game of the tournament for 37 career points, surpassing [Valeri Kharlamov](https://bliptext.com/articles/valeri-kharlamov) of the Soviet Union, [Vlastimil Bubník](https://bliptext.com/articles/vlastimil-bubn-k) of Czechoslovakia, and [Harry Watson](https://bliptext.com/articles/harry-watson-ice-hockey-b-1898) of Canada.\nSweden's [goaltender](https://bliptext.com/articles/goaltender) [Henrik Lundqvist](https://bliptext.com/articles/henrik-lundqvist) set a modern-day Olympic [shutout](https://bliptext.com/articles/shutouts-in-baseball) streak record of 172 minutes and 34 seconds, continuous from the final of the gold medal game of the [2006 Olympics](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey-at-the-2006-winter-olympics-men-s-tournament) until Sweden's quarterfinal against Slovakia.\nThe tournament was won by Canada for the record eighth time (one more than the Soviet Union), which defeated the United States in overtime in the gold medal game.\n\n# Qualification\nBelarus, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States qualified as the top nine teams in the [IIHF World Ranking](https://bliptext.com/articles/iihf-world-ranking).\nGermany, Latvia and Norway qualified via the qualification tournament for teams ranked 10th through 30th.\n\n# Rosters\n\n# Preliminary round\nPoints to each team were awarded as follows:\nIf two or more teams were tied in points, the following tiebreaker criteria were used:\nIf a criterion left only two teams tied, then those teams were ranked based on their head-to-head result.\n\n## Group A\n \nAll times are local ([UTC−8](https://bliptext.com/articles/utc-8)).\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n## Group B\n \nAll times are local ([UTC−8](https://bliptext.com/articles/utc-8)).\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n## Group C\n \nAll times are local ([UTC−8](https://bliptext.com/articles/utc-8)).\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n## Ranking after preliminary round\n\n# Playoff round\nFollowing the completion of the preliminary round, all teams were ranked 1D through 12D.\nTo determine this ranking, the following criteria were used in the order presented:\n\n## Bracket\n\n## Qualification playoffs\nThe top four ranked teams (1D–4D) received byes to and were deemed the home team in the quarterfinals as they were seeded to advance, with the remaining eight teams (5D–12D) playing qualification playoff games as follows:\nIf the score remained even after regulation, a 10-minute overtime period was played.\nIf neither team scored, a shoot out of three rounds of [penalty shots](https://bliptext.com/articles/penalty-shot) decided the winner.\nThe four winners of these qualification playoff games advanced to the quarterfinal round, while the losers of the qualification playoff games received a final ranking of 9 through 12 based on their preliminary round ranking.\nAll times are local ([UTC−8](https://bliptext.com/articles/utc-8))\n \n \n \n \n\n## Quarterfinals\nTeams seeded D1 to D4 were the home teams.\nIf the teams were tied after 60 minutes of regulation, a 10-minute overtime period decided the winner immediately upon the next goal.\nIf the game remained tied after the overtime period, a [penalty shot](https://bliptext.com/articles/penalty-shot) competition determined the winning team.\nFollowing the quarterfinal games, the winning teams were re-ranked F1 through F4, with the winner of 1D vs. E4 re-ranked as F1, the winner of 2D vs. E3 re-ranked as F2, the winner of 3D vs. E2 re-ranked as F3, and the winner of 4D vs. E1 re-ranked as F4.\nThe losers of the quarterfinal round games received a final ranking of 5 through 8 based on their preliminary round ranking.\nAll times are local ([UTC−8](https://bliptext.com/articles/utc-8)).\n \n \n \n \n\n## Semifinals\nAll times are local ([UTC−8](https://bliptext.com/articles/utc-8)).\n \n \n\n## Bronze medal game\nAll times are local ([UTC−8](https://bliptext.com/articles/utc-8)).\n \n# [The Finnish team celebrating after winning the bronze medal | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Finlandhockeybronze2010WinterOlympics.jpg]\n\n## Gold medal game\nAll times are local ([UTC−8](https://bliptext.com/articles/utc-8)).\n \nThe gold medal game was a rematch of the men's tournament in [ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey-at-the-2002-winter-olympics) held in [Salt Lake City](https://bliptext.com/articles/salt-lake-city), United States.\nIn addition, [Chris Pronger](https://bliptext.com/articles/chris-pronger), [Scott Niedermayer](https://bliptext.com/articles/scott-niedermayer), [Martin Brodeur](https://bliptext.com/articles/martin-brodeur) and [Jarome Iginla](https://bliptext.com/articles/jarome-iginla) of [Team Canada](https://bliptext.com/articles/2009-10-canada-men-s-national-ice-hockey-team) were returnees from the 2002 gold-winning squad and collected their second gold medal.\n[Brian Rafalski](https://bliptext.com/articles/brian-rafalski) and [Chris Drury](https://bliptext.com/articles/chris-drury) were the only players remaining from USA's 2002 silver squad.\nThe final score was a 3–2 win for Team Canada.\nGoal scorers for Canada were [Jonathan Toews](https://bliptext.com/articles/jonathan-toews), [Corey Perry](https://bliptext.com/articles/corey-perry) and [Sidney Crosby](https://bliptext.com/articles/sidney-crosby), with the winning goal scored in overtime.\nFor USA, the goal scorers were [Ryan Kesler](https://bliptext.com/articles/ryan-kesler) and [Zach Parise](https://bliptext.com/articles/zach-parise), the latter tying the game with 25 seconds left, forcing it to go into [sudden death](https://bliptext.com/articles/sudden-death-sport).\nSidney Crosby scored the game-winning goal off a pass from Jarome Iginla, seven minutes and forty seconds into overtime for Canada, gaining victory over the United States.\nThe puck has been sent to the [Hockey Hall of Fame](https://bliptext.com/articles/hockey-hall-of-fame) in Toronto; in Canadian media, Crosby's goal has been compared in significance to the ones scored by [Paul Henderson](https://bliptext.com/articles/paul-henderson) in the [1972 Summit Series](https://bliptext.com/articles/1972-summit-series) and [Mario Lemieux](https://bliptext.com/articles/mario-lemieux) in the [1987 Canada Cup](https://bliptext.com/articles/1987-canada-cup).\nThe referees for the final were [Bill McCreary](https://bliptext.com/articles/bill-mccreary-referee) (Canada) and [Dan O'Halloran](https://bliptext.com/articles/dan-o-halloran) (Canada), while the linesmen were [Stefan Fonselius](https://bliptext.com/articles/stefan-fonselius) (Finland) and [Jean Morin](https://bliptext.com/articles/jean-morin-ice-hockey) (Canada).\nThe gold medal game was the last competitive event at the Olympics before the [closing ceremony](https://bliptext.com/articles/2010-winter-olympics-closing-ceremony).\n# [Crowds take to the streets of Vancouver to celebrate Canada's win in the gold medal game | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Celebrating///hockey///gold///in///Vancouver///%2819%29.jpg]\n# [The Canadian team celebrating after winning the gold medal | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Canada2010WinterOlympicsOTcelebration.jpg]\n\n### Game summary\n\n### Television ratings\nThe gold medal game drew a big hockey audience in both Canada and the United States.\nIn Canada, the game drew an average 16.6 million viewers while 26.5 million Canadians watched at least part of the game.\n[Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium](https://bliptext.com/articles/canada-s-olympic-broadcast-media-consortium) claims that 22 million people – or two thirds of the Canadian population – were watching the gold medal game when Sidney Crosby scored in overtime, making the game the most-watched television broadcast in Canadian history.\nHowever, a new ratings system intended to better track out-of-home viewership was only implemented in August 2009, making it difficult to accurately compare these results with ratings prior to that date – specifically, the [2002 Canada–USA gold medal game](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey-at-the-2002-winter-olympics) in Salt Lake City, the record holder under the previous system.\nThere was some speculation that the final game of the 1972 [Summit Series](https://bliptext.com/articles/summit-series) had as many as 18 million viewers, although recently recovered [Nielsen ratings](https://bliptext.com/articles/nielsen-ratings) archives indicate that only 4.255 million Canadians watched that game live.\nIn the United States, [NBC](https://bliptext.com/articles/olympics-on-nbc) said that the game was the most-watched hockey game in the U.S. in 30 years, drawing 27.6 million, the largest since the United States–Finland game that decided the gold medal at the [1980 Winter Olympics](https://bliptext.com/articles/1980-winter-olympics).\n\n# Final rankings\nThe final standings of the tournament according to the [IIHF](https://bliptext.com/articles/international-ice-hockey-federation):\n\n# Statistics\n\n## Average age\nTeam Finland was the oldest team in the tournament, averaging 31 years and 5 months.\nTeam USA was the youngest team in the tournament, averaging 27 years and 2 months.\nGold medalists team Canada averaged 28 years and 2 months.\nTournament average was 29 years.\n\n## Leading scorers\nRankings based upon points.\n\n## Leading goaltenders\nGoalkeepers with 40% or more of their team's total minutes.\n**[Shutout](https://bliptext.com/articles/shutout) posters**\n\n# Awards\nUnited States' [Ryan Miller](https://bliptext.com/articles/ryan-miller) was named the [most valuable player](https://bliptext.com/articles/most-valuable-player) and received the Directorate Award for best goaltender of the tournament.\nDirectorate Awards also went to [Brian Rafalski](https://bliptext.com/articles/brian-rafalski) (United States) for best defenceman, and to [Jonathan Toews](https://bliptext.com/articles/jonathan-toews) (Canada) for best forward.\nThe tournament all-star team was voted on by the international media at the conclusion of the event.\nThe following players were named:\nToews, along with [Brent Seabrook](https://bliptext.com/articles/brent-seabrook) and [Duncan Keith](https://bliptext.com/articles/duncan-keith) would become the fourth, fifth and sixth players to win both Olympic gold medal and Stanley Cup (with the [Chicago Blackhawks](https://bliptext.com/articles/chicago-blackhawks)) in the same year, following [Ken Morrow](https://bliptext.com/articles/ken-morrow) 1980, and [Steve Yzerman](https://bliptext.com/articles/steve-yzerman) and [Brendan Shanahan](https://bliptext.com/articles/brendan-shanahan) (2002).\n[Patrick Kane](https://bliptext.com/articles/patrick-kane) would become the fourth player to win both Olympic silver medal and Stanley Cup in the same year, following Red Wings [Sergei Fedorov](https://bliptext.com/articles/sergei-fedorov) in 1998, and [Chris Chelios](https://bliptext.com/articles/chris-chelios) and [Brett Hull](https://bliptext.com/articles/brett-hull) in 2002.\n\n## Triple Gold Club\nThe [Triple Gold Club](https://bliptext.com/articles/triple-gold-club), made up of individuals who have won the Stanley Cup plus gold medals at the Olympics and [World Championships](https://bliptext.com/articles/ice-hockey-world-championships), gained two new members:\nLater the same season, Team Canada centre [Jonathan Toews](https://bliptext.com/articles/jonathan-toews) would go on to become the 24th and youngest player in the Triple Gold Club, following up his Olympic gold medal with the Stanley Cup with the [Chicago Blackhawks](https://bliptext.com/articles/chicago-blackhawks) just four months after winning Olympic gold.\nHe had previously won the World Championships in [2007](https://bliptext.com/articles/2007-iihf-world-championship).\n\n# Officials\nGames were primarily officiated by NHL referees, a stipulation by the NHL if most Olympic players are NHLers, according to the [IIHF](https://bliptext.com/articles/international-ice-hockey-federation) (not NHL) rules.","revisionCount":0},"hasMore":false,"nextCursor":null}

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