🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 Finland 🇫🇮
Four Nations Cup Preliminary Round
Kitchener Memorial Auditorium, Kitchener 🇨🇦
Saturday, 09 November 2002
BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:12 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Bilodeau, holding
05:13 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Kingsbury (Walton, Ouellette)
08:42 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Ouellette, charging
09:46 – 🇫🇮 PP GOAL – Fisk (Nieminen, Laaksonen)
14:46 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Sostorics (Perks)
15:50 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Antal (Chartrand)
19:42 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Hefford, roughing
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🇨🇿 Czechia 5-2 Sweden 🇸🇪
Karjala Tournament
ČEZ Aréna, Pardubice 🇨🇿
Thursday, 07 November 2002
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:25 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Tolsa, high sticking
03:33 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Duda, charging
05:43 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Duda (Beránek)
11:05 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Procházka, high sticking
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🇨🇦 Canada 5-1 Sweden 🇸🇪
Four Nations Cup Preliminary Round
Hershey Centre, Mississauga 🇨🇦
Thursday, 07 November 2002
BOXSCORE
1st Period
01:57 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Lorsell, tripping
04:45 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Hefford, body checking
05:24 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Jansson (Rooth)
08:42 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Lorsell, hooking
11:45 – 🇸🇪 PEN – A. Andersson, tripping
15:25 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Apps, high sticking
18:16 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Hefford, slashing
18:16 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Sunohara, roughing
18:16 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Holst, roughing
18:16 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Tageson, roughing
18:36 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Apps, boarding
19:33 – 🇨🇦 SH GOAL – Wickenheiser (Campbell, Kellar)
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🇨🇦 Canada 7-0 United States 🇺🇸
Four Nations Cup Preliminary Round
Kitchener Memorial Auditorium, Kitchener 🇨🇦
Wednesday, 06 November 2002
BOXSCORE
1st Period
05:51 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Dupuis, high sticking
08:15 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Hefford (Sunohara, Dupuis)
10:41 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Perks (Apps, Piper)
11:07 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Brisson, elbowing
15:53 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Stephens, high sticking
19:34 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Brisson, interference
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🇸🇰 Slovakia 4-3 Russia 🇷🇺
World Championship Gold Medal Game
Scandinavium, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Saturday, 11 May 2002
To fully understand the impact of Slovakia’s first World Championship Gold medal in hockey, we need to rewind. The dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 01 January 1 1993, meant that the Czech Ice Hockey Association took over the position of former Czechoslovakia while Slovakia was considered a “new” hockey nation. As a result, the Slovaks had to start from scratch in the IIHF World Championship program and work their way up through the divisions.
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🇷🇺 Russia 3-2 Finland 🇫🇮
World Championship Semifinal
Scandinavium, Gothenburg 🇸🇪
Thursday, 09 May 2002
BOXSCORE
1st Period
03:44 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Prokopiev, interference
04:37 – 🇫🇮 PP GOAL – Karalahti (Helminen, Timonen)
07:28 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Vyshedkevich, holding
08:40 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Miettinen, interference
09:57 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Pärssinen, hooking
10:19 – 🇷🇺 PP2 GOAL – Zatonski (Sushinski)
12:22 -🇷🇺 PEN – Butsayev, hooking
14:09 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Zatonski, interference
19:49 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Prokopiev, high sticking
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🇷🇺 Russia 3-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Championship Quarterfinal
Kinnarps Arena, Jönköping 🇸🇪
Tuesday, 07 May 2002
BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:20 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Kubina, slashing
13:12 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Kalinin, cross checking
15:47 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Koznev (Tkachenko, Guskov)
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🇨🇿 Czechia 5-1 Canada 🇨🇦
World Championship Qualification Round
Kinnarps Arena, Jönköping 🇸🇪
Sunday, 05 May 2002
BOXSCORE
1st Period
05:37 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Čajánek
07:00 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Hlinka, holding
10:50 – 🇨🇿 GOAL – Hrdina (Jágr, Hlinka)
14:42 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Ujčík, high sticking
17:35 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Matvichuk, high sticking
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🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 Switzerland 🇨🇭
World Championship Qualification Round
Lofbergs Lila Arena, Karlstad 🇸🇪
Friday, 03 May 2002
BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:56 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Hirschi, interference
10:19 – 🇨🇭 PEN – Steinegger, interference
15:44 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Williams, elbowing
18:59 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Ference, interference
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🇨🇦 Canada 3-1 Germany 🇩🇪
World Championship Qualification Round
Lofbergs Lila Arena, Karlstad 🇸🇪
Thursday, 02 May 2002
BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:51 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Comrie (Williams)
12:30 – 🇩🇪 GOAL – Hynes (Loth, Benda)
12:41 – 🇨🇦 PEN – T. Wright, boarding major + game misconduct
13:17 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Morrow, high sticking
16:29 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Soccio, high sticking
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🇨🇦 Canada 2-1 United States 🇺🇸
World Championship Preliminary Round
Lofbergs Lila Arena, Karlstad 🇸🇪
Tuesday, 30 April 2002
BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:26 – 🇨🇦 PEN – T. Wright, elbowing
10:54 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Clark, boarding
15:39 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Tamer, hooking
17:51 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – Donato (Hilbert)
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🇨🇦 Canada 5-0 Italy 🇮🇹
World Championship Preliminary Round
Lofbergs Lila Arena, Karlstad 🇸🇪
Monday, 29 April 2002
BOXSCORE
1st Period
02:59 – 🇮🇹 PEN – Peca, holding
08:05 – 🇮🇹 PEN – Busillo, charging
09:39 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Matvichuk, hooking
09:53 – 🇮🇹 PEN – Ramoser, hooking
11:16 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Malhotra, cross checking
14:11 – 🇮🇹 PEN – team, too many players
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🇨🇦 Canada 4-1 Latvia 🇱🇻
World Championship Preliminary Round
Lofbergs Lila Arena, Karlstad 🇸🇪
Saturday, 27 April 2002
BOXSCORE
1st Period
07:58 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Schlegel
09:10 – 🇨🇦 PEN – T. Wright, hooking
13:53 – 🇱🇻 GOAL – Panteļejevs (Beļavskis, Žoltoks)
14:54 – 🇱🇻 PEN – Laviņš, holding
17:45 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Schlegel, interference
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🇨🇦 Canada 4-3 Sweden 🇸🇪
Exhibition Game
Kinnarps Arena, Jönköping 🇸🇪
Wednesday, 24 April 2002
BOXSCORE
1st Period
10:12 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Whitney (Cleary, Schaefer)
12:08 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – A. Johansson
12:38 – 🇨🇦 PEN – Matvichuk, hooking
18:49 – 🇨🇦 GOAL – Heatley (Comrie)
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🇨🇦 Canada 5-2 United States 🇺🇸
Olympic Gold Medal Game
E Center, West Valley City 🇺🇸
Sunday, 24 February 2002
After the great disappointment of Nagano, when Canada failed to win a medal despite a tremendous lineup and Gold medal expectations, Canada was leaving nothing to chance four years later. Wayne Gretzky, who was not selected in the shootout against the Czechs in 1998, had retired and been named Canada’s general manager, and he surrounded himself with a roster of executives unlike anything in Canada’s hockey history.
Collectively, they chose the 20 skaters and three goalies who would try to bring their country Olympic glory for the first time since 1952.
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🇨🇦 Canada 7-1 Belarus 🇧🇾
Olympic Semifinal
E Center, West Valley City 🇺🇸
Friday, 22 February 2002
Canada’s Men’s Olympic hockey team advanced to the Gold medal game at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a 7-1 victory over Belarus on Friday. Canada will now face the winner of the USA vs. Russia semi-final game.
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🇨🇦 Canada 3-2 United States 🇺🇸
Olympic Gold Medal Game
E Center, West Valley City 🇺🇸
Thursday, 21 February 2002
For more than a week, they bore their opponents’ taunts with smiles and silence. They talked instead about how much they respected the U.S. women’s Olympic hockey team. They said nothing about the little things that were being done to irritate and belittle them; little things such as having their photographs at the athletes village scribbled on and autographed by the American players.
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🇧🇾 Belarus 4-3 Sweden 🇸🇪
Olympic Quarterfinal
E Center, West Valley City 🇺🇸
Wednesday, 20 February 2002
The 2002 Olympics were rounding into shape quite nicely during the Final Round. Germany and Belarus, the two weakest teams which had advanced from the Preliminary Round, finished in fourth and last place of their respective groups, and the world’s top six nations had each played three games to get to know each other.
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🇺🇸 United States 4-0 Sweden 🇸🇪
Olympic Semifinal
E Center, West Valley City 🇺🇸
Tuesday, 19 February 2002
BOXSCORE
1st Period
05:16 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Mleczko, elbowing
06:42 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Elfsberg, body checking
14:42 – 🇺🇸 PEN – Wendell, slashing
17:16 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – Granato (Mounsey, Wendell)
19:32 – 🇺🇸 GOAL – King (Bye, Mleczko)
19:50 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Bergstrand, tripping
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🇸🇪 Sweden 7-1 Germany 🇩🇪
Olympic Preliminary Round
Peaks Ice Arena, Provo 🇺🇸
Monday, 18 February 2002
BOXSCORE
1st Period
04:10 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Ustorf, holding
04:30 – 🇸🇪 PP GOAL – Näslund (Lidström, Sundström)
06:03 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Sundin (Alfredsson, Dahlén)
06:57 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Soccio, roughing
09:23 – 🇸🇪 GOAL – Renberg (Öhlund, Ragnarsson)
13:05 – 🇩🇪 PEN – Ehrhoff, high sticking
16:47 – 🇸🇪 PEN – Axelsson, hooking
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