Ice hockey

A community portal about Ice hockey with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Ice hockey, referred to simply as hockey in Canada and the United States, is a team sport played on ice. While there are 64 total members of... [more]

A community portal about Ice hockey with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Ice hockey, referred to simply as hockey in Canada and the United States, is a team sport played on ice. While there are 64 total members of the International Ice Hockey Federation, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and the United States have finished within most of the coveted 1st, 2nd and 3rd places at IIHF World Championships. Of the 63 medals awarded in men's competition at the Olympic level from 1920 on, only six did not go to the one of those countries, or a former entity thereof, such as Czechoslovakia or the Soviet Union. Only one of those six medals was above bronze. Those seven nations have also captured 162 of 177 medals awarded at 59 non-Olympic IIHF World Championships, and all medals since 1954. Likewise, all nine Olympic and 27 IIHF World Women Championships medals have gone to one of those seven countries. Also deserving of mention is Switzerland, which has won two men's bronze medals at the Olympics and finished at least third seven times at the World Championships. Switzerland also maintains one of the oldest and top-rated ice hockey leagues outside of the NHL.