The men's ice hockey tournament at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, was the 18th Olympic Championship. Sweden won its first gold medal. The tournament, held from 12 February to 27 February, was played at Fjellhallen in Gjøvik and the HÃÂ¥kons Hall in Lillehammer. This was the last Olympic ice hockey competition with no women's tournament as it debuted in 1998.
The top eleven nations from the 1993 World Championships qualified directly. To fill the twelfth spot, five nations were selected to compete: The top two from Group B (Great Britain and Poland), the top nation from Group C (Latvia), the best Asian nation (Japan), and Slovakia. This was the first IIHF event for Slovakia.
All times are local (UTC+1).
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An exciting gold medal game saw Sweden force overtime by tying the score with less than two minutes to go. After a scoreless overtime, the winner was determined by a shootout. The first five rounds saw two players for each side make their penalty shots (Nedved and Kariya for Canada and Forsberg and Svensson for Sweden). In the sixth round, both Nedved and Svensson missed their shots. Forsberg then scored on Canadian goaltender Hirsch to start the seventh round. Kariya took Canada's seventh round shot and was stopped by Swedish goaltender SaloâÂÂgiving the Swedes the gold medal.
In 1995, the Swedish postal service memorialized Forsberg's game winning shootout goal by issuing a commemorative stamp. Because goaltender Corey Hirsch would not grant permission for his likeness to be used on the stamp, he was 'disguised' by means of changing the color of his sweater and his player number.
Team France was the oldest team in the tournament, averaging 28 years. Team USA was the youngest team in the tournament, averaging 22 years and 11 months. Gold medalists Team Sweden averaged 26 years and 6 months. Tournament average was 26 years and 3 months.
<small>GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes; POS = Position<br />Source: eliteprospects.com</small>