Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	0	2
2	Canada (CAN)	1	0	0	1
3	Finland (FIN)	0	1	0	1
4	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's details	Per-Johan Axelsson Christian Bäckman Peter Forsberg Mika Hannula Niclas Hävelid Tomas Holmström Jörgen Jönsson Kenny Jönsson Niklas Kronwall Nicklas Lidström Stefan Liv Henrik Lundqvist Fredrik Modin Mattias Öhlund Samuel Påhlsson Mikael Samuelsson Daniel Sedin Henrik Sedin Mats Sundin Ronnie Sundin Mikael Tellqvist Daniel Tjärnqvist Henrik Zetterberg	Finland (FIN) Niklas Bäckström Aki Berg Niklas Hagman Jukka Hentunen Jussi Jokinen Olli Jokinen Niko Kapanen Mikko Koivu Saku Koivu Lasse Kukkonen Antti Laaksonen Jere Lehtinen Toni Lydman Antti-Jussi Niemi Ville Nieminen Antero Niittymäki Petteri Nummelin Teppo Numminen Fredrik Norrena Ville Peltonen Jarkko Ruutu Sami Salo Teemu Selänne Kimmo Timonen	Czech Republic (CZE) Jan Bulis Petr Čajánek Patrik Eliáš Martin Erat Dominik Hašek Milan Hejduk Aleš Hemský Milan Hnilička Jaromír Jágr František Kaberle Tomáš Kaberle Filip Kuba Pavel Kubina Aleš Kotalík Robert Lang Marek Malík Rostislav Olesz Václav Prospal Martin Ručinský Dušan Salfický Jaroslav Špaček Martin Straka Tomáš Vokoun David Výborný Marek Židlický
Women's details	Becky Kellar Gina Kingsbury Charline Labonté Carla MacLeod Caroline Ouellette Cherie Piper Cheryl Pounder Colleen Sostorics Kim St-Pierre Vicky Sunohara Sarah Vaillancourt Katie Weatherston Hayley Wickenheiser	Kim Martin Frida Nevalainen Emilie O'Konor Maria Rooth Danijela Rundqvist Therese Sjölander Katarina Timglas Anna Vikman Pernilla Winberg	Krissy Wendell

Men's competition

The format was changed from the version used in the 1998 and 2002 tournaments. This format was used in 1992 and 1994, the number of teams was reduced from 14 to 12 and the preliminary and final group stages were combined to form two six-team groups with the top four from each group advancing to the quarterfinals.

These changes had the following effects:

• They increased the number of group games played by the "Super Six", who previously automatically qualified for the final group stage, from three to five.
• They ensured that only four teams from each group would advance to the knock-out stage. This would give the games more meaning.

Qualification

Twelve places were allotted for the men's ice hockey tournament. The first eight were awarded to the top eight teams in the

1.  Canada
2.  Sweden
3.  Slovakia
4.  Czech Republic
5.  Finland
6.  United States
7.  Russia
8.  Germany

Sweden throwing a game

Allegations have surfaced of Sweden throwing a game against Slovakia so the Swedes would face Switzerland instead of Canada or the Czech Republic. Shortly before the game, Sweden coach

As part of a subsequent interview about the championship over five years later, Forsberg was interpreted to insinuate that Sweden lost their preliminary round game against Slovakia on purpose, so as to draw Switzerland as their quarterfinal opponent, rather than Canada or the Czech Republic. Swedish forward Henrik Sedin, who played alongside Forsberg on the 2006 team denied the notion ^[3][4]

Women's competition

Qualification

The top four teams from the

References