Triple Gold Club

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There are three components of the Triple Gold Club (clockwise from top left): an Olympic Games gold medal, the Stanley Cup and a World Championship gold medal.

The Triple Gold Club is the group of ice hockey players and coaches who have won an Olympic Games gold medal, a World Championship gold medal, and the Stanley Cup, the championship trophy of the National Hockey League (NHL). The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) considers them to be "the three most important championships available to the sport".[1]

Tomas Jonsson, Mats Näslund, and Håkan Loob became the first members on 27 February 1994 when Sweden won the gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics. The term first entered popular use following the 2002 Winter Olympics, which saw the addition of the first Canadian members.[2][3][4] On 8 May 2007, the IIHF announced it would formalize the club and recognize the players who had won the three championships.[5][6][7][8] The induction ceremony was held, with all 22 members at the time present, at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, on 22 February 2010.[9]

There are 30 player members of the Triple Gold Club—eleven Canadians, nine Swedes, seven Russians, two Czechs, and one Finn. Eleven of the players are defencemen and the remaining players are forwards; to date, no goaltender has achieved the honor.[1] From the time of their first victory, Niklas Kronwall, Mikael Samuelsson and Henrik Zetterberg took the least time to join the club, winning the Olympics and World Championships in 2006 (as members of the Swedish national team) and the Stanley Cup in 2008 (as members of the Detroit Red Wings).[10] In contrast, it took Russian Viacheslav Fetisov 19 years from his first victory to become a member. Jonathan Toews is the youngest player to accomplish the feat, winning the third championship (the Stanley Cup) at the age of 22 years, 42 days; Pavel Datsyuk is the oldest, winning Olympic gold at 39 years, 220 days. Russians Fetisov and Igor Larionov, and Swede Peter Forsberg are the only players to have won each of the three championships more than once. Ten members of the Triple Gold Club have won the Stanley Cup as part of the Detroit Red Wings, more than any other NHL team.

2004 and coached the Red Wings to a Stanley Cup win in 2008.[11] In 2015, Sidney Crosby became the first Triple Gold Club member to captain all three of his winning teams.[12] On 29 May 2022, Valtteri Filppula became the latest member of the club, playing for Finland in the 2022 IIHF World Championship
.

Components

The IIHF considers the components of the club to be "the three most important championships available to the sport".

Czechoslovak teams were populated with amateur players who were actually full-time athletes hired as regular workers of a company (aircraft industry, food workers, tractor industry) or organization (KGB, Red Army, Soviet Air Force) that sponsored what would be presented as an after-hours social sports society hockey team for their workers.[13] Additionally, many Eastern bloc players were not allowed (some defected) to play in the NHL and win the Stanley Cup before the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989.[1]

Five Canadians won an Olympic gold medal in 1920, 1924 or 1928 as well as a Stanley Cup. Those Olympic ice hockey tournaments are also World Championships as there was not a separate world championship tournament until 1930. The five are

Frank Frederickson,[14] Haldor Halderson,[15] Dunc Munro,[16] Hooley Smith,[17] and Dave Trottier.[18]
The IIHF does not recognize these players as members of the Triple Gold Club.

Olympic gold medal

Main article: Ice hockey at the Olympic Games

The men's tournament was first held at the

Soviet Union first participated in 1956, and overtook Canada as the dominant international team, winning seven of the nine tournaments in which they participated. The only two tournaments that the Soviets failed to win, in 1960 and 1980, were hosted and won by the United States. Other nations to win gold include Great Britain in 1936, Sweden in 1994 and 2006, and the Czech Republic in 1998.[21]

Many of Canada's top players were NHL professionals, so the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) pushed for the ability to use professional and amateur players.[22] The International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to allow all athletes to compete in Olympic Games held after 1988. The NHL was initially reluctant to allow its players to compete because the Olympics are held in the middle of the NHL season. An agreement was later reached and NHL players began competing in 1998.[23] The NHL rescinded their agreement for allowing their players to participate beginning at the 2018 Winter Olympics.[24]

World Championship gold medal

Main article: Ice Hockey World Championships

The Ice Hockey World Championship is an annual tournament organized by the

1930 in which twelve nations participated.[25] The modern format for the World Championship features 16 teams in the championship group. The teams play a preliminary round and the top eight teams play in the playoff medal round.[26]

Canada was the first dominant team, winning the tournament 12 times between 1930 and 1952. The Soviet Union first participated in 1954 and from 1963 until 1991 was the dominant team, winning 20 championships. During that period, only three other nations won medals: Canada, Czechoslovakia and Sweden. Russia first participated in 1992 and the Czech Republic and Slovakia joined in 1993.[27] In the 2000s the tournament became more competitive as the "big six" teams (Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden and the United States) became evenly matched.[28]

Stanley Cup

Main article: Stanley Cup

The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy awarded to the National Hockey League (NHL)

chalice.[29]

Originally inscribed the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, the trophy was donated in 1892, by then Governor General of Canada Lord Stanley of Preston, as an award for Canada's top-ranking amateur ice hockey club.[31] The competition for the Cup went through several eras, with teams challenging for it, inter-league competition, and finally the NHL championship. After a series of league mergers and folds, it became the de facto championship trophy of the NHL in 1926 and the official trophy in 1947.[32]

Members

 *  Player is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.[33]
 ^  Player is still active.
Text in bold indicates the specific championship that made that player or coach a member of the club.

Players

Nat. Player Membership
gained 		Olympic gold World Championship Stanley Cup
Sweden Tomas Jonsson 27 February 1994 Sweden 1994
1991
 New York Islanders 1982, 1983
Sweden Mats Näslund 27 February 1994 Sweden 1994
1991
 Montreal Canadiens 1986
Sweden Håkan Loob 27 February 1994 Sweden 1994
1991
 Calgary Flames 1989
Russia Valeri Kamensky 10 June 1996
USSR 1988
1990
 Colorado Avalanche 1996
Russia Alexei Gusarov 10 June 1996
USSR 1988
1990
 Colorado Avalanche 1996
Sweden Peter Forsberg * 10 June 1996 Sweden 1994, 2006
1998
 Colorado Avalanche 1996, 2001
Russia Viacheslav Fetisov * 7 June 1997
USSR 1984, 1988
1990
 Detroit Red Wings 1997, 1998
Russia Igor Larionov * 7 June 1997
USSR 1984, 1988
1989
 Detroit Red Wings 1997, 1998, 2002
Russia Alexander Mogilny 10 June 2000
USSR 1988
1989
 New Jersey Devils 2000
Russia Vladimir Malakhov 10 June 2000 Unified Team 1992
1990
 New Jersey Devils 2000
Canada Rob Blake * 24 February 2002 Canada 2002
1997
 Colorado Avalanche 2001
Canada Joe Sakic * 24 February 2002 Canada 2002
1994
 Colorado Avalanche 1996, 2001
Canada Brendan Shanahan * 24 February 2002 Canada 2002
1994
 Detroit Red Wings 1997, 1998, 2002
Canada Scott Niedermayer * 9 May 2004 Canada 2002, 2010
2004
 		New Jersey Devils 1995, 2000, 2003
Anaheim Ducks 2007
Czech Republic Jaromír Jágr ^ 15 May 2005 Czech Republic 1998
2010
 Pittsburgh Penguins 1991, 1992
Czech Republic Jiří Šlégr 15 May 2005 Czech Republic 1998
2005
 		Detroit Red Wings 2002
Sweden Nicklas Lidström * 26 February 2006 Sweden 2006
1991
 Detroit Red Wings 1997, 1998, 2002, 2008
Sweden Fredrik Modin 26 February 2006 Sweden 2006
1998
 Tampa Bay Lightning 2004
Canada Chris Pronger * 6 June 2007 Canada 2002, 2010
1997
 Anaheim Ducks 2007
Sweden Niklas Kronwall 4 June 2008 Sweden 2006
2006
 Detroit Red Wings 2008
Sweden Henrik Zetterberg 4 June 2008 Sweden 2006
2006
 Detroit Red Wings 2008
Sweden Mikael Samuelsson 4 June 2008 Sweden 2006
2006
 Detroit Red Wings 2008
Canada Eric Staal ^ 28 February 2010 Canada 2010 Canada 2007 Carolina Hurricanes 2006
Canada Jonathan Toews ^ 9 June 2010 Canada 2010, 2014 Canada 2007 Chicago Blackhawks 2010, 2013, 2015
Canada Patrice Bergeron 15 June 2011 Canada 2010, 2014
2004
 Boston Bruins 2011
Canada Sidney Crosby ^ 17 May 2015 Canada 2010, 2014 Canada 2015 Pittsburgh Penguins 2009, 2016, 2017
Canada Corey Perry ^ 22 May 2016 Canada 2010, 2014 Canada 2016 Anaheim Ducks 2007
Russia Pavel Datsyuk 25 February 2018 OAR 2018 Russia 2012 Detroit Red Wings 2002, 2008
Canada Jay Bouwmeester 12 June 2019 Canada 2014 Canada 2003, 2004 St. Louis Blues 2019
Finland Valtteri Filppula ^ 29 May 2022 Finland 2022 Finland 2022 Detroit Red Wings 2008

Coaches

Nat. Coach Membership
gained 		Olympic gold World Championship Stanley Cup
Canada Mike Babcock 28 February 2010 Canada 2010, 2014
2004
 Detroit Red Wings 2008

See also

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