02/22/98 Gold medal game, CZE vs.RUS 
02/22/98 Start of gold medal game, CZE vs.RUS 
02/22/98 Jagr in final game, CZE vs.RUS 
02/22/98 Gold medal game, CZE vs.RUS 
02/21/98 Bronze medal game - FIN vs.CAN 
02/20/98 Jarmo Myllys stops Pavel Bure 
02/20/98 Kimmo Timonen and Sergei Krivokrasov 
02/90/98 Pavel Bure and Jere Lehtinen 
02/18/98 Lindros vs. Kazakhstan 
02/16/98 CAN vs. USA, Gretzky after assist 
02/16/98 Sergei Fedorov vs. Czech Rep. 
02/15/98 Juha Lind on Andrei Trefilov 
02/13/98 SWE vs. USA: Mike Richter 
02/13/98 Antti Tormanen vs. Czech Rep. 
02/13/98 Alfredsson a goal vs. USA 
02/09/98 Aleksander Alekseev (BEL) and Brad Bergen (GER) 
02/09/98 Finland vs. China in Women's hockey 
02/12/98 Richard Nasheim shoots on Japanese goal in preliminaries 
02/09/98 Gretchen Ulion (USA) and Malin Gustafsson (SWE) 
02/12/98 Japan beat Austria 4-3 
02/13/98 Patrik Kjellberg and Daniel Alfredsson and the Sweden bench 
02/12/98 Hiroyuki Miura (JPN) and Thomas Searle (AUS) 
02/12/98 Benoit Doucet (GER) pursued by Jan Pardavy (SVK) 
02/08/98 Men's Preliminaries 
02/09/98 Christian Pouget (FRA) elbows Tsutsumi Otomo (JPN) 
FIN vs JPN: Yukari Ohno (14) Yuki Togawa (10) |
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Men's
The Czech Republic team won the men's hockey gold medal. They won 1-0 in the gold medal game against Russia. Petr Svoboda scored the winning goal in 8:08 of the third period. Dominik Hasek was great in shutting out the speedy Russians. Finland won the bronze medal by upsetting the Canadians 3-2. In the qualifying round, Belarus and Kazakhstan advanced from the B pool into the Championship round robin. Russia and Canada both won their groups. In the quarter-finals, the Czech Republic shocked the USA and Finland upset Sweden. Russia and Canada advanced easily. In the semi-finals, Russia beat Finland and the Czechs won in a shootout against Canada. After the United States were knocked out, some members trashed two hotel rooms. Chairs were broken and fire extinguishers were fired. One fire extinguisher was thrown from the fifth floor. This happened around 4 am and the damages were about at $3000 U.S. Men's Gold Medal Game Results FINAL 1ST 2ND 3RD TOTAL -------------- --- --- --- ----- CZECH REPUBLIC 0 0 1 1 RUSSIA 0 0 0 0 Men's Tournament Leading Scorers PLAYER TEAM G A PTS --------------------- ---------- --- --- --- TEEMU SELANNE Finland 4 6 10 SAKU KOIVU Finland 2 8 10 PAVEL BURE Russia 9 0 9 ALEXANDER KORESHKOV Kazakhstan 3 6 9 PHILIPPE BOZON France 5 2 7Canadians: The Canadian men's hockey team finished a disappointing fourth place. Superstar Paul Kariya was not in the tournament due to a concussion and star Joe Sakic was injured for most of the tournament. Star Mark Messier was left off the team. Captain Eric Lindros' team won games against Belarus, USA, and Sweden in the round robin. In the crossover elimination round, Canada defeated Kazakhstan 4-1 to advance to the semi-finals. In the semi-final against the Czech Republic team, Canada was the favourite going in. There was no score in the first and second periods. Czech Republic defenceman Jiri Slegr scored at 9:46 of the third period and the Canadians were down 1-0. Trevor Linden tied the score by beating the NHL MVP Dominik Hasek, the Czech goaltender, with a high shot with only 1:03 left in the game. In overtime, Canada outshot the Czechs 5-1 but Hasek stoned them. The game was going to be decided with the dreaded shootout. Robert Reichel was up first for the Czechs and scored on Canadian netminder Patrick Roy with a low shot. Canadians Theo Fleury, Ray Bourque, Joe Niewendyk, Eric Lindros all failed to beat Hasek. The last Canadian, Brendan Shanahan had to score to force a sudden-death shootout. Hasek stopped that one too. The Czech Republic defeated Canada 2-1. There was a lot of second-guessing after the game. Many wondered why head coach Marc Crawford did not choose the all-time leading goal scorer Wayne Gretzky, Steve Yzerman or Mark Recchi but instead chose defenceman Ray Bourque. The dejected Canadians went into the bronze medal game against Finland wanting to come home with a least a medal. The Finns were without tournament leading scorer Teemu Selanne. Jari Kurri and Jere Lehtinen scored for Finland while Rod Brind'Amour and Brendan Shanahan scored for Canada after two periods. Ville Peltonen scored the winning goal 17 seconds into the third period and the Finns won 3-2. Women's The United States won the gold medal in women's hockey. They defeated the Canadian team 3-1 in the gold medal game. Finland, led by tournament leading scorer Riikka Nieminen, won the bronze medal game 4-1 against China. In the round robin, the United States finished first with a 5-0 record. Canada was second, losing only to the USA. Finland was third and China grabbed the final medal round spot over Sweden. Japan finished last. Women's Gold Medal Game Results FINAL 1ST 2ND 3RD TOTAL ------------- --- --- --- ----- CANADA 0 0 1 1 UNITED STATES 0 1 2 3 Women's Tournament Leading Scorers PLAYER TEAM G A PTS ---------------- ------------- --- --- --- RIIKKA Nieminen Finland 7 5 12 DANIELLE GOYETTE Canada 8 1 9 KARYN BYE United States 5 3 8 CAMMI GRANATO United States 4 4 8 KATIE KING United States 4 4 8 
Canadians:
Canada won the silver by losing 3-1 to the United States in the gold-medal
game. Gretchen Ulion and Shelley Looney scored for the United States to take
a 2-0 lead. Danielle Goyette scored her eighth goal of the tournament with
just 4 minutes left in the game to pull Canada within one. However, Sarah
Tueting, the U.S. goalie stopped all the shots the rest of the way. Sandra
Whyte scored an empty net goal to seal the victory.
In the round-robin, Canada defeated Japan, Sweden, China, and Finland before losing to the United States in the last meaningless game. Canada won the semi-final against Finland before losing the gold-medal game. 
02/18/98 Eric Lindros of Canada vs. Kazakhstan 
02/22/98 Jaromir Jagr (CZE) in gold medal game vs. Russia 
02/21/98 Patrick Roy in bronze medal game vs. Finland Back to Main |
